Through the Flames

infobox book |
name=Through the Flames (Left Behind: The Kids #3)
author=Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
publisher=Tyndale House Publishers
media_type=Mass Market Paperback
pages=146
isbn=0842321950

"Through the Flames" is the third book of forty in the series written by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye in 1998. The plot for this book is based on the Left Behind series.

This book starts where Second Chance left off. After finding out that the body in the morgue was not his uncle, Lionel Washington starts trying to look for him before it's to late.

After a disagreement, Ryan takes off from Judd's house. Wanting to prove that he's brave, He goes to Lionel's house which has been taken over by some of Lionel's uncle's "friends". He eavesdrops on a phone conversation between a women and Lionel's uncle. After being discovered, Ryan races off on his bike trying to out run the house occupants who have a van. Finally having run out of options he hides in his house and calls Bruce Barnes

When the other kids go to their meeting with Bruce they're worried about Ryan till Bruce tells them he got a phone call from Ryan telling him he'd be there. When Ryan gets there he tells the story and also adds that while he was being chased he decided to become a christian.

Lionel finally finds out where Andre is staying and has someone take him there. After he leaves he and the other kids hear a gunshot and race back the the apartment. There they find it in flames. Lionel and Judd Race up the building to Andre's apartment to find him shot and dying. They get him out of the building but he dies right after. They find out he was shot by one of the people in Lionel's house named LeRoy Banks. They meet police officer, Tom Fogerty who promises to help them catch LeRoy and his associate Cornelius Grey.