If Spinks' tales of rags to riches are true, then his life story seems even more remarkable. His mother was a Catholic missionary with a penchant for Country music. His father a fiddle player from Louisiana with one eye, lamentably, this was for the ladies. They married around the time of Leon's birth, and is was shortly before this that the problems first began. The arrival of a bouncing baby boy put strain on the couples relationship. This resulting in them abandoning Leon in the Forest of Little Hope, where he was consequently raised by squirrels until the age of 15. The squirrels taught Spinks a valuable lesson in the importance of saving (nuts) for the future. He applied this "Squirrel Logic" to the stockmarket in later life, and after a few false starts, he swiftly accrued his vast w