Refiner's Fire

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.