Seductive Poison has been required reading at major universities around the United States, including: University of California at Davis, Stanford University, Gonzaga University, Rutgers University, Stony Brook University NY, California State University Fresno and is published in Italy, France, Australia, Germany, Thailand, the United Kingdom. She lives in the Berkeley Hills and spends much of her time writing, speaking and enjoying family. Prior to writing her memoir, Layton worked on the trading floor of an investment banking firm in San Francisco. giving testimony before State Department officials requesting help for the 900 people held against their will in Jim Jones’ encampment in Guyana. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple is a first-hand account of the incidents surrounding Peoples Temple (whose base in Guyana was the scene of the 1978 Jonestown massacre), written by survivor Deborah Layton (born February 7, 1953), a high-level member of the Peoples Temple.

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell. Six months later and just four days before the tragedy, Deborah was in Washington D.C. Seductive Poison has been published in Italy, France, Australia, Germany, Thailand and United Kingdom. Four weeks after a harrowing narrow escape, Deborah’s affidavit became front page news across the country. As a trusted aide to Jim Jones, she became embroiled in the upper-level workings of the Peoples Temple, both in California and Guyana. It was at this point that her life dramatically changed. Upon her return from England, at just eighteen years old, she joined the Peoples Temple and moved into their campus dormitory in Northern California. After a rebellious two years in the Berkeley school system, she was sent by her parents to a Quaker boarding school in England to finish high school. Deborah Layton grew up in Berkeley during the turbulent 1960’s. Seductive poison : a Jonestown survivors story of life and death in the Peoples Temple Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.

Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton