TSAMI & TSADO I

About the Book

COMMISSIONED, tells the story of Tsami, a brash youth in search of adventure, and Tsado is sedentary book-wise scholar, hardly a match, and an unlikely pairing for any kind of task.  The story is set amidst the pristine lands of Mariel a state whose capital is Maritown.  Tsami and Tsado are from a race of Maaris from the villages of Dagheir, and Miramari.  Tsado had never had to defend himself from Kelvusi card sharks, or anyone before, and Tsami had never tried to intervene on anyone’s behalf either.

Through coincidence, or is it Providence, they are thrown together and have to learn to get along with one another while living in a new city, among a melting pot of strangers.

Tsami’s dreams of swashbuckling adventure are realized one day when they are visited by ‘King’s Commissioner’, who selects them and assigns them to a task in service of the High King’s Army.  Tsado’s cautionary fears are overcome by Tsami’s bravado, and after accepting the commission they find that there were many more obstacles to overcome, and many more discoveries to be made in their own town.

About the Author

Born in the rural village of Torrrice, Italy, Enzo's parents emigrated to Australia, where he grew up in the sugar cane town of Childers, Queensland.  He enlisted in the RAAF from school and then as a civilian again worked at several occupations from advertising to cab driving.  He helped teach a Children’s Ministry class each Sunday with his Church, and developed many characters to enable his teaching.  At the Age of 26 he traveled to Italy to visit his birth place, and many relatives he’d never known.  The travel-bug had now bitten him however, and once back in Australia, he used the relative freedom of cab driving, to travel again, this time, the world over, and he lived out one of his fantasies, which was living in Israel, where he worked for two years.  He attended Christian Heritage College in Brisbane, Australia, where he completed a BA in (English Literature and History), and began teaching.  After studying Children’s Literature he turned his hand to writing and wrote the Tsami & Tsado trilogy.  He then completed a BEd Italian & English) and MA (Applied Linguistics) at the University of Queensland.

In 2004 he began teaching English in North Carolina, USA where he has found a wealth of inspiration.  He lives in rural St Pauls with his dog, an Australian Shepherd of course, and his Chooks (chickens in America). Enzo attends the First Pentecostal Holiness Church, and approaches his writing with a philosophy which says, ‘if the story is not going to up-build and teach something lasting, why bother writing it?