Worlde, Jonathan

Jonathan Worlde is the nom de plume of a criminal defense lawyer and a very high-level official in the Department of Justice. He explains that he chose that moniker at the time of publication of his first book, Latex Monkey with Banana in 2002, because otherwise he ran the likelihood of having government censors reviewing and butchering his work. Since Latex Monkey has become such a cult classic he decided to continue with the Jonathan Worlde identity for his noir mysteries and certain other works of fiction. His first career was in film production; he worked in the U.S. and in Germany making