Terry Delaney's comfortable life is upset when he falls in love with Danielle Kabbel, daughter of charismatic emigre Rudi Kabbel, and succumbs to Rudi's obsessive visions of approaching doom Terry Delaney, a rugby player in Pernith, Australia, takes a job with a security firm run by Belorussian emigre Rudi Kabbel, a man "marred by history." When Delaney falls in love with Rudi's daughter, he is drawn into the family's madness as they prepare to survive an apocalyptic annihilation and establish "a true Belorussia of the spirit." In his "History of the Kabbelski Family," Rudi recounts his harrowing experiences as a child in World War II when the Nazis occupied his homeland; and the journal of Rudi's father, Stanislaw Kabbelski, reveals the evil done in the name of patriotism by the Belorussians fighting for their independence. These three separate narratives are skillfully combined in a complex and powerful novel by one of Australia's leading writers. Kenealy's last book was the critically acclaimed Schindler's List ( LJ 10/82). Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.