Between Two Fires

4.3 avg 545 votes

About this book

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

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4.3/5 · 545 readers · 456 pages · ≈ 8 h 27 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read Between Two Fires?

About ≈ 8 h 27 m — 456 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mBetween Two Fires~8 h 27 m

How many pages is Between Two Fires?

456 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Between Two Fires456

What genre is Between Two Fires?

It sits on the Historical Fiction, Fiction shelves.

Is Between Two Fires in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who are the main characters in Between Two Fires?

The main characters include Lucifer.

Where does Between Two Fires take place?

It is set in France, Avignon (France) during Middle Ages, 600-1500, Black Death.

Who wrote Between Two Fires?

Christopher Buehlman (1969–0).

Setting FranceAvignon (France) Time period Middle Ages, 600-1500Black Death Characters Lucifer
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