Concrete Jungle by PJ Skinner
Armed with an MBA, Sam Harris is storming the City
But has she swapped one jungle for another?
Forging a new career was never going to be easy, and Sam Harris soon discovers she has not escaped from the culture of misogyny and corruption that blighted her field career.
Her heroic past is revealed at a mining drinks party, and she finally achieves the acceptance she has always craved. But being one of the boys is not the panacea she expected. When her due diligence on a project uncovers a scam, she is presented with the stark choice of compromising her principles to keep her new position, or exposing the truth behind the façade.
Will she finally get what she wants or was it all a mirage?
Concrete Jungle is the final book of the Sam Harris Adventures and completes the saga. If you like strong female protagonists, international adventure and financial thrillers, and have followed the series, you’ll love Sam's final hurrah.
About the author
PJ Skinner is geologist who has spent thirty years roaming the planet and collecting tall tales and real-life experiences. Most of her postings were in remote and dangerous sites which provide background settings for her novels. She now writes fact-based novels from the relative safety of London. She still travels worldwide collecting material for the series and having her own adventures.
Review
Alas we have come to the end of the Sam Harris adventures and I’m bereft! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these seven books and I wish there were seven more but all good things must come to an end. I wasn’t sure what to expect from ‘Concrete Jungle’ as we see Sam start to work in the City of London. Would this series transfer well into an office setting? But I shouldn’t have worried as we still see Sam jetting off into South America and Africa just on much shorter trips. Once again it was a brilliant read filled with great characters and hilarious situations.
After the horrific events in the last book Sam has decided that field work is no longer for her and has obtained her MBA and is now looking for work in the City of London. When she is employed in a company that deals with mining rights she finds that misogyny and back handed deals exist in this world as much as it did in the field. But when they find out she is ‘that’ Sam Harris, the one who had been kidnapped, they finally accept her as one of the boys but does she really want this?
This book managed to pull together a lot of the threads from the last six books and for me it was a fitting finale and Sam ended up in the right place for her! Sam has been a brilliant character to follow and has some brilliant moments in this book. I must say I laughed very hard at the disguise scene and loved when old friends kept turning up in random places.
And now I really am at the end. This is a brilliant series and one that I fully recommend. Sam Harris will always have a place in my heart 💜
