- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group; 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition (26 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786710217
- ISBN-13: 978-0786710218
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.8 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,183,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Surveillance becomes a dangerous two-way street for the women at the center of this powerful literary debut probing the underworld of neo-Nazism in America's heartland. Told through the braided narratives of two women, who unwittingly hold each other's lives in their hands, this suspenseful novel reveals the explosive results when sinister secrets are sought by advocates of tolerance, and personal secrets stolen from them are turned into weapons of hate. Gillian Gracea professor of modern German history, mother of a biracial teenage daughter, and political researcher into modern fascismhas long promoted pluralism in a multicultural world. Meanwhile, Lucy Wirth is trapped within the extremist realm of the Sons of the Shepherd, a sect with ties to German neo-Nazis. Gillian agrees to help graduate student Michael Landis infiltrate the Sons, whom he suspects in the murder of a Native American friend. But soon Gillian herself becomes an object of their surveillance, for Lucy has been coerced into an affair with the Sons' pastoral leader, then blackmailed into spying on Gillian and her daughter. Through the dangerous journey that follows, the truths of each woman's life poignantly resonate in the world of the other. At stake is the outcome of a biological terror plot that the Sons of the Shepherd are preparing to launch. Gillian and Lucy must choose whether to change their role from passive observers to engaged participants in the unfolding story, so that they may prevent their own lives, and countless others, from burning up in the Sons' flames of terror.
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It used to be you had to take a ferry between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan, but progress came by way of the Mackinac Bridge in the late 1950s. Read the first page
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3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
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A thoughtful suspense novel, 20 Jun 2002
By Martha E. Crites - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Truth About Fire: A Novel (Hardcover)
Gillian Grace is a professor of modern German History who ends up teaching in rural Michgan to avoid her separated but un-divorced husband--with her troubled mixed- race daughter in tow. A graduate student talks her into helping him as he pursues the Far Right who may be responsible for the murder of his friend. Alternates with sections written from the point of view of Lucy Wirth whose husband has unwittingly allowed the Sons of the Shepherd to use his sporting goods store to stage their arms build up and plans for biological warfare. Interesting parallels between her relationship with her husband and with the graduate student--where the tables are turned and she now becomes over involved with a student. Fascinating development as she realizes that the student is as crazed as the neo-nazis he pursues. The bioterrorism angle seems too far removed from the action of the story for me to really care, but the characters and the struggle to understand evil are compelling enough to make up.
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Wonderful read, 13 Feb 2003
By Melissa S. Alvin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Truth About Fire: A Novel (Hardcover)
This book is a wonderful read. It has a slow start, but, once you get in the heart of "The Truth About Fire," you're drawn into the story and it's hard to put it down. The romantic story intertwined in the main plot makes for a welcomed addition to story.
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A chilling novel about Neo-Nazi acts of biological terrorism, 7 Jun 2002
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Truth About Fire: A Novel (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hartmann's The Truth About Fire is a chilling novel about Neo-Nazi acts of biological terrorism taking place in modern-day America. A young college woman becomes drawn into the web of an extremist group, and becomes situated on the crossroads of history as she resolves to foil a deadly plot that threatens the destruction of America. The Truth About Fire is an engaging and suspenseful story that firmly hooks the readers total attention from first page to last.
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