Refiner's Fire

by Sylvia Bambola

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576736946
• ISBN13: 9781576736944
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Multnomah Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Exciting, but Tender

I hate to be trite, but I couldn't put this book down! Not only was the story interesting (and you couldn't wait to find out how it all turned out), but the dialogue was real and the people even more so. The background that Ms. Bambola researched and presents to us is fascinating. How many of us truly understand what it must be like to live in a cold, bleak, cruel and restrictive society as it was in Romania? That these people suffered and died for their Christian faith is something for all of us to understand, respect, and if ever necessary, hope we could emulate. Ms. Bambola...write us some more great books!!

Well worth reading by men and women!

WOW! What a great book! Whether you like intrigue, inspirational literature, historical works, or just plain good reading, you'll find this is well worth your time. I savored it from a few sittings and then couldn't put it down. The author has down an excellent job and I look forward to seeing more by her.

I couldn't put the book down!

Bambola was masterful in her character and plot development. Not only were the main characters, Alexander and Yuri, interesting and multi-dimensional, the many supporting players had depth and carried weight.

Refiner's Fire is a riveting piece of historical fiction...

Refiner's Fire is a riveting piece of historical fiction. Bambola establishes multi-dimensional protagonists that lead us through compelling plot lines that intertwine intrigue, persecution and spirituality to a suspense-filled conclusion. A testament to Bambola's character development is my lingering wish to follow the stories of Alexander and Yuri beyond the last chapter...

A superb story of faith, struggle, and destiny.

Set amidst the brutal reign of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1980s Bucharest, Rumania, Sylvia Bambola's Refiner's Fire is the gripping story of secrets, suspense, persecution, and faith. Alexander Wainwright is the ambitious new American ambassador to Romania. Yuri Deyneko is the Romanian army officer (and clandestine Christian) assigned to spy on him. Both men are professionals who know their assignments. But what they do not know (although Yuri suspects) is that each man is the other's long-lost fraternal twin. Two brothers on the opposite sides of the Iron Curtain who must learn together how to discover their destinies -- and each other. Sylvia Bambola is a master storyteller who plays fair with her readers at all times in this novel of the human heart, faith, struggle, and destiny.