Today there are once more saints and villains. . . .
Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that dramatizes this painful dilemma through the fictional re-creation of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In a gripping and sweeping narrative that moves from Berlin to London to New York City, encompassing shattering historical events, clandestine meetings, perilous missions abroad, and eventual imprisonments and death, Denise Giardina brings to life an instance of shining courage in the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War. Denise Giardina is the author of three previous novels, including Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth . She teaches at West Virginia State College and is a licensed lay preacher of the Episcopal Church.