Into the Fire

They say your personality is set at age seven. This is the year Helen Jenks’s father left, the day after the millions went missing from the bank where he was a director.Helen never gave up her belief in her father, the familiar figure, Proustian smells, his classic BMW she now owns with that familiar smell of aftershave on rainy days, but everyone has doubts…and everyone doubts her.Did her heritage drive her to become a major player in the City’s dealing rooms, where derivatives players earn millions?The jungle of the City of London leads to the Machu Picchu trail in Peru, where Helen Jenks’s heritage becomes entwined with the world’s secret intelligence services and the biggest business of all, cocaine.Linda Davies takes you from the world’s financial centers to the mountains and jungles of Peru, where the old Incas succumbed to the conquistadores.

About the Author

Born in Scotland and raised in South Wales, Linda inhaled books as child and dreamed of becoming a writer. But she was the daughter of an economist and a homemaker and raised to be practical. So she went into investment banking instead. One day, to her horror, she figured out a way to commit the perfect financial crime. Instead of doing it, she quit her job and wrote about it. Nest of Vipers went on to be published in over 30 territories, optioned multiple times and has sold over three million copies. Linda has gone on to publish 11 more books, 6 for adults and 5 for children, which collectively have sold millions of copies and won various awards.She has lived in Peru and the Middle East with her husband and 3 children. In 2005, in what could have been ripped from the pages of her own books she and her husband were kidnapped, interrogated and held prisoner in Iran. She went on to write about this experience and what she learned from it in her first work of non-fiction, Kidnapped.Linda also writes for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Guardian newspapers and the National Theatre. She is a winner of the Philip Geddes Prize for journalism. In 2018, Linda became the Inaugural Writer in Residence at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.She lives near the sea in Suffolk with her family and two Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

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