num_pages: 352
description: A thriller steeped in European culture like The Salzburg Connection, Refiner's Fire serves up serious suspense to avid fiction readers. This book's "secret underground society" is not Nazi war criminals, however-it's the persecuted Christian church. Yuri and Alexander Deyneko, separated as teens in postwar times, are reunited thirty-five years later in 1980s Bucharest. Now on separate sides of Nicolae Ceausescu's Iron Curtain, the secret life of one brother, a top army official and clandestine Christian, and the ambition of the other- now the American Ambassador to Romania-puts them on a collision course with each other. Fates hang on an issue of conscience. Great writing propels readers through the plot toward a gripping climax.
language: English
title: Refiner's Fire
titlecomplete: Refiner's Fire
genres: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 111
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Christy Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Multnomah