Into the Fire - Softcover

Davies, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006511880 ISBN 13: 9780006511885

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

A powerful thriller of loss and redemption, racing from the dealing rooms of London to the jungles of Peru, by the bestselling author of Nest of Vipers.

Helen Jencks is beautiful and confident and a brilliant trader at a top City bank – but she has always had to live in the shadow of her financier father’s disgrace and disappearance when she was a child. Now Helen has been implicated in a multi-million-dollar scam in London – and the world says ‘like father, like daughter’. Into the Fire is the brilliantly fast-paced novel of how Helen escapes to Peru and discovers the truth behind her father’s disappearance, then returns triumphantly to outscam the insider dealers who had set her up for the fall.

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Review:

From the reviews of Nest of Vipers:

‘Stylish thriller imparts all the fear and exhilaration of financial juggling on a massive scale’
Daily Mail

‘A taut, sexy thriller’
Evening Standard

‘This riveting suspense-high finance combo marks Davies – a former trader – as Wall Street’s answer to Scott Turow’
New Woman

From the Author:

From the Financial Jungle to the Real Jungle
From the Financial Jungle to the Real Jungle

Helen Jencks, a beautiful young woman working as a derivatives trader in the City of London uncovers a massive fraud in which she herself is the obvious suspect! By fleeing to Peru she escapes the trap set for her, but in her new, exotic surroundings it gradually dawns on her that she has put her life in great peril. Soon she is on the run again, from the Andes to the jungle, and from Peru to Columbia. The chances of her surviving, let alone ever returning to London to confront the men who framed her, seem remote.

My three years spent living in Peru, as well as my earlier career as an investment banker, provided the inspiration for this novel. The beauty of the contrasting landscapes of the coastal desert, the Andes, and the Amazon jungle, the country's history and cultural heritage, the stark divide between the lives of the urban elite and the rural campesinos, the threat from the rump of the terrorist movements (still not quite extinguished), bandits, and cocaine producers - these all made a tremendous impression.

I experienced these things at first hand, including a gun battle in my garden, and used them to get under the skin of Helen Jencks, the heroine of this story. I wanted to convey something of how a young woman fugitive from a totally different background reacts to the beauty and drama of life in Peru, and the dilemma she faces of whether or not to trust a secretive and puzzling man she meets there - Evan Connor, apparently a tour guide but in reality a former SAS soldier now working for British intelligence. Despite her misgivings Helen Jencks throws in her lot with Evan Connor, and makes the irrevocable decision to walk into the fire ...

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0006511880
• ISBN 13: 9780006511885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496