Left Behind: A Novel of
the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1)
by Tim Lahaye,
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife
Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his
"drop-dead gorgeous" flight attendant, Hattie.
First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the
Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which
Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to
endure the Antichrist's Tribulation.
Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit
Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have
disappeared! The Rapture has happened, abruptly driverless cars are
crashing all over, and the slick, sinister Romanian Nicolae
Carpathia plans to use the UN to establish one world government and
religion.
Resembling "a young Robert Redford" and silver-tongued
in nine languages, Carpathia is named People's "Sexiest Man
Alive." (This reviewer, a former People writer, finds this plot
twist plausible.)
Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system
newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of
left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist.
Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael
Crichton with his apocalypse novel The End of the Age (now available
on audiocassette), and the similar The Third Millennium sells well,
but the Left Behind series is the absolute champion in the race to
make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. --Tim
Appelo
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