Linda Davies: Into the Fire [1999] hardback

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.