Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

Oct 2012 · Penguin

About this ebook

“Buehlman…slips effortlessly into a different kind of literary sensibility, one that doesn’t scrimp on earthy humor and lyrical writing in the face of unspeakable horrors.”*

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found an orphan of the Black Death in a Norman village. An almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that the plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on Heaven. But is it delirium or is it faith?

She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across an apocalyptic landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission. There her true nature will be revealed. And there Thomas will confront an evil wrestling for the throne of Heaven, and which has poisoned his own soul.

*Kirkus Reviews

Ratings and reviews

I wish I could explain all the things about this book that I loved. It would just take too long. I can only say - it was just my kinda book.

A well told story with a cast and plot not easily forgotten. I will tell everyone to read this novel and hope they love it too.

Written by the most brilliant wordsmith I will ever have the honor of knowing.

About the author

Christopher Buehlman is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize for Poetry and the author of Those Across the River and several plays. He spends half the year in St. Peterburg, Florida, and the rest on the road.