Deborah Layton appears and is heard on BBC (British Broadcastin Co.), MSNBC, CNN, NPR's All Things Considered, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Co.), Discovery Channel and A&E.

Born in Tooele, Utah, in 1953, Deborah grew up in Berkeley, California, and attended high school in Yorkshire, England. After her escape from Jonestown, Guyana in May 1978, she worked as an assistant on the trading floor of an investment banking firm in San Francisco until she resigned in 1996 to begin writing Seductive Poison. Deborah lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is raising her daughter.

First-Hand "Expert"

Because of her first-hand experience with cults and cult-like systems, Layton is considered an expert on cults. She lectures regularly at Stanford University. Seductive Poison is on the curriculum at Gonzaga University"s Doctorate Program for Leadership.