Into The Fire

Riveting for both the pulse-pounding action and the moral and character complexity

Bookseller

Expertly blends a very plausible solution to a genuine historical mystery with a compulsive contemporary thriller. The result, as the title suggests, is intoxicatingly fiery reading

Robert Goddard

Manda Scott’s writing is so grippingly vivid that once you begin reading, it becomes your reality. Highly recommended

Elizabeth Chadwick

To say I was blown away is an understatement of the greatest magnitude. Into the Fire is in a word, magnificent. Page turning. Visceral. Mesmerising. Evocative - it's so evocative. It's filthy-nailed, sweat-stained, blood-drenched, gut-wrenching, tear-inducing. It's everything I want a book to be – I did not want it to end

Ben Kane

Into the Fire is a wonderful blend of fast and furious action, bravura storytelling, a palpable sense of place - Orléans past and present - and a whodunnit that will keep you guessing until the final pages. Fabulous.

Kate Mosse

Exceptionally well-paced, and altogether a real treat

Historical Novels Review

An absorbing thriller that cleverly unites the past and the present

Nick Rennison, BBC History

An ingenious and thrilling read...A masterclass in writing historical fiction

Antonia Senior, The Times BOOK OF THE MONTH

Manda Scott is an amazing writer who constantly subverts our expectations. As a historical novelist, she has a habit of showing us the familiar from unexpected angles. In the process, her books reveal overlooked truths about the past. Her crime novels and thrillers, on the other hand, display an author entirely at home with the issues and technologies of the present, as well as a mistress of her craft. Into The Fire is Manda Scott’s best book yet, which is saying a great deal. It’s not just a crackingly good thriller and a ground-breaking historical novel. It also changes the way we think about a key episode in history.

Andrew Taylor

Magnificent...Clever, gripping, and a nifty thriller to boot

Daily Mail

Cleverly plotted, taut and febrile...Scott's writing is swift and vigorous, a far cry from many of the weedy, court-bound historical novels of today...Salty and vivid, and persuasively evoke[s] not only the brimstone of war but the lives and patterns of thought of its participants

Toby Clements, Sunday Telegraph

The pace never falters. Scott weaves together a thriller ‘save the universe in 45 minutes’ plotline with compelling historical narrative . . . Into The Fire deserves to be widely read and talked about

Crime Review

Beautifully written, well researched, and gripping

Book Oxygen

Wonderful...Combines the two things I love most: thrillers and historical fiction

Daily Express

A clever, gripping thriller — a Da Vinci Code for those who like their prose to be elegant as well as page-turning

Antonia Senior, The Times – Best Historical Fiction of 2015