Apollyon (Left Behind)
Reissue edition cover using first edition artwork
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| Author | Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins |
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| Cover artist | Julie Chen |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Left Behind Series |
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Christian novel Speculative Fiction Apocalyptic fiction |
| Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers |
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Publication date
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Monday, February 1, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback, and Audiobook) |
| Pages | 412 pages (hardcover edition) 403 pages (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (hardback edition) & (paperback edition), (cassette audio book) |
| OCLC | 40218701 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3562.A315 A56 1999 |
| Preceded by | Soul Harvest |
| Followed by | Assassins |
Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed is the fifth book in the Left Behind series. It was written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in 1998. It was published on Monday, February 1, 1999 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 20 weeks. It takes place 27–38 months into the Tribulation.
The prologue is the last two pages of Soul Harvest.
Cameron "Buck" Williams and Rayford Steele have become international fugitives. New believers like Condor 216 first officer Mac McCullum and computer programmer David Hassid take their places as moles in the Global Community (GC) and use his infrastructures to evangelize and thwart Carpathia’s attempts to find members of the Tribulation Force. Ray and Ken Ritz go to the States to check in on Hattie Durham and the safe house. Hattie confesses to Rayford that Amanda White was entirely innocent of supposed collaboration with Carpathia - the e-mail texts were simply an elaborate smear campaign ordered by Carpathia himself.
At the prophesied conference of witnesses, held at Teddy Kollek Stadium and hosted by Tsion Ben-Judah, the Potentate makes an unwelcome visit. At this time, Israel's water turns to blood, which Carpathia blames on the Two Witnesses. Jacov, Chaim Rosenzweig's driver, becomes a believer; later that night he is found in a bar, telling people that Jesus is Messiah. The next day at the conference, Tsion tells the audience they are waiting for the next Trumpet Judgment, in which the sun, moon, and stars will darken by 1/3. He also explains that 3/4 of the population since the Rapture will die prior to the end of the Tribulation. The last night of the conference, the Two Witnesses appear at the stadium. Then a GC attack breaks out while the Trib. Force retreats to Chaim's estate which, being an old embassy, has a helipad. Ken flies to the house in GC1, Nicolae's helicopter, and gets the force into the chopper. While transferring the force at the airport, Ken Ritz is shot trying to give Rayford as much time as he needs.
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