Is it right to kill Satan's hit man? Would it help God's work? This installment in the Left Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele--"believer" and international fugitive--as he struggles with a plan to assassinate 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.

Fans of the series won't be disappointed. Jenkins's signature writing is at full force. Readers can count on a suspenseful plot, imaginative futuristic thinking, and familiar characters, all of which appear in the opening pages and are sustained until the last cliffhanger scene when God unleashes another earth-shattering disaster.


From Library Journal
In the continuing struggle after the Rapture, Rayford Steele and Buck Williams plan to dethrone Nicolae Carpathia and expose him as the Antichrist. LaHaye and Jenkins (Apollyon) build up a plot reminiscent of "Who Shot J.R.?" and leave us hanging after the assassination of Nicolae. Who did it, is he really dead, and when is the next book coming out? As the millennium approaches, so does interest in this series, so don't be "left behind." Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Beliefnet
The masses like LaHaye and Jenkins, even though their theology makes it logical to kill all children at age 10 in order to guarantee them a ticket to heaven or that God does not want Christians ever to suffer and so removes them in the Rapture before there is tribulation. (Tell that to contemporary martyrs.) (Beliefnet, June 2000)

FROM OUR EDITORS

Assassins finds believer Rayford Steele struggling with his urge to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. The Tribulation Force becomes suspicious of Hattie, who may be a traitor in spite of her claim that she is a believer. The bestselling series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye reaches a new boiling point in this thrilling, fast-paced audiobook. Also available on CD.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Tribulation is now into its 38th month. Giant horsemen ride the earth, scorching thousand with their fiery wrath. The believers in Christ find sanctuary in safe houses while they continue to seek spiritual strength from their leader. But one of the faithful, desperate to hasten the events foretold in scripture, has secret plans-to assassinate the Antichrist!
This sixth volume in one of the fastest-selling series of all time follows the continuing fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies found in Revelation. Richard Ferrone's muscular narration pulls the listener straight into the midst of the apocalyptic clash between good and evil.

About the Authors and Narrator: Noted scriptural authority Tim LaHaye provides outlines for the vivid Biblical prophecies in the Left Behind series. Best-selling author Jerry

B. Jenkins creates the dramatic stories for each fast-paced apocalyptic thriller.

Narrator Richard Ferrone worked with the Tony Award-winning Trinity Repertory for eight years, and was a member of Tony Randall￯﾿ﾽs National Actor's Theatre. He has appeared on and Off-Broadway, and in several popular TV series.

SYNOPSIS

Assassins is the sixth book in the continuing drama of those left behind at the Rapture of the church -- events prophesied in the Book of Revelation, dramatically depicted in a setting that could be anytime in the not-so-distant future. Picking up where Apollyon left off, this latest volume brings closure to some "cliff-hanger" situations in book five, while it confronts readers with an intriguing new set of challenges and questions about the Tribulation Force and their clashes with the Enemy and his legions.

The plot takes many twists and turns as the Tribulation Force moves through mayhem and destruction created by Nicolae Carpathia and his followers. The life of the Carpathia-appointed head of Enigma Babylon One-World Faith is in jeopardy, as are the lives of the two witnesses at the Wailing Wall. Adding to these already vivid narratives, a supernatural horde of 200 million demonic horsemen appears to wreak further death and destruction. A member of The Tribulation Force dies, while the group continues to prepare for a future as fugitives, and houseguest Hattie Durham, who is not committed to their faith and mission, leaves the "safe house." Rayford Steele, one of the original Tribulation Force, struggles with his desire to kill Carpathia and his need to maintain a low profile, keeping his allegiance to the group secret to Carpathia and his puppets. World history and prophecy collide in Jerusalem at the middle of the Tribulation for this most explosive yet continuing drama of those left behind.

About the Author:

Dr. Tim LaHaye, who conceived the "Left Behind" series, is a former pastor and educator, and a lifelong student of prophecy. More than 10 million of his nonfiction works have sold. He and his wife, Beverly, live in Southern California.

Jerry B. Jenkins, writer of the series, is writer at large for the Moody Bible Institute. In addition to the "Left Behind" series, four of Jenkins' other books have been national best-sellers. He and his wife, Dianna, live in Colorado.

FROM THE CRITICS

Matthew Scully - National Review

...a highly imaginative piece of work, with much Christian wisdom and a message of readiness relevant enough to all regardless of which comes first -- one's own last days or the world's.

Library Journal