Evening Standard - London, January 18th, 1999
SEDUCTIVE POISON by Deborah Layton (Aurum, GBP 14.99) INTELLIGENT people get ensnared by cults all the time. When Deborah Layton joined Jim Jones's People's Temple while still a teenager in 1971, she was under the impression that she'd be working for a humanitarian outfit dedicated to fighting injustice in the name of egalitarianism: would be a member of a respectable group, an established organisation that was helping the needy, the poor and the underprivileged." Little did she imagine then that in seven years' time she'd be thankful just to be alive. Layton is both scrupulous and honest in ...
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