Assignment Jerusalem, Target Antichrist

Rayford Steele: "believer" and international fugitive, struggles with a plan to assassinate the Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system, all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the
world and even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously preaching to the masses of believers and converts through his cyberspace magazine The Truth.
All the believers in the safe house, including Buck, Doc, Chloe, and Tsion, are suspicious of Hattie: former mistress of Carpathia, who claims to be a believer but may have already compromised their secret location when she tried to buy her way to Europe months before. One of the major developments in 'Assassins' is what becomes of Rayford Steele. He has lost family, his second wife, his friends, and now believes he is losing his grip on sanity. His exploits carry him all over the world in search of Hattie Durham, and often places him in exciting and adrenaline pumping scenarios. David finds himself getting deeper and deeper within the bowels of the Global Community and the reaches of Nicolae Carpathia (the Antichrist). Oh, and Chaim's internal battle over his own faith climaxes at the Global Gala.

The one world religion is dealt with by Nicolae, as are the two witnesses at the Wailing Wall. Peter the Second finds himself in a situation manipulated by Nicolae and there is no easy escape. The depravity of the world's citizens becomes more engulfed in sin, and it is really scary to read about these events. The most chilling event I found in the book was with Nicolae himself. We catch him in a very short passage praying to Lucifer, thus confirming himself as the Antichrist, and the few words he speaks will send chills down your spine.

It is three years into the tribulation and the 4th trumpet has been sounded. What ensues throw what's left of the worlds population into further chaos and despair. Many more convert to Christ, while many others blatantly choose the other side, and the death toll of familiar characters
increases. 200 million horseman apocalypse foretold in Revelations has arrived and 1/3 of the survivors of all the previous disasters have been slaughtered. Believers live through this tribulation unscathed but they know they face worse to come.