SYNOPSIS. Byron
Clarke is a Sydney born assistant photographer and Dee Why surfer. His
ultimate career plan is to emulate Dino Chiaro, internationally
renowned fashion photographer and all round lady-killer who happens to
be his employer of five years. Their next location shoot is to take
them to the Caribbean island of San Pedro off the coast of Belize but
while he is there, a government offer to accept a "small assignment"
for a ludicrously large amount of money, has Byron sidetracked in a big
way. It's now that he meets the stunningly beautiful C.I.A. agent
Lucia Vega, under whose spell he becomes trainee and assistant in a
very different world. A deadly covert world of espionage, danger and
murder. In his new found lifestyle, Byron learns fast and he and Lucia make quite a formidable team. On an adventure that starts in Sydney, moves to the jungles of Belize and Key West Miami, they must fight for their very lives.
JD. Forbes was born in Sydney, where his first employment was in the
film industry as an assistant cameraman. He moved to London and worked
as a photographer for Vogue Studios for fifteen years. He returned to
Sydney and the film industry once more where he has worked
ever since as an Art Director.
He has previously published a cook book with his partner,
Stylist/Journalist Sandy Wingrove.
"The Assistant" is his first novel. A follow up is due out in 2006 with
continuing characters and is currently titled "The Berlin Connection"
