Assassins (LaHaye novel)
Reissue edition cover using first edition artwork
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| Author | Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins |
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| Cover artist | Juile Chen |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Left Behind Series |
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Christian novel Speculative Fiction Post-apocalyptic fiction |
| Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers |
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Publication date
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August 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) also Audiobook |
| Pages | 416 pages |
| ISBN | (hardback edition) & (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 41231283 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3562.A315 A94 1999 |
| Preceded by | Apollyon |
| Followed by | The Indwelling |
Assassins: Assignment:Jerusalem, Target:Antichrist is the sixth book in the Left Behind series. It was written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in 1999. It was released in August 1999 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 39 weeks. It takes place 38–42 months into the Tribulation.
The book begins with protagonist Rayford Steele contemplating killing Global Community Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia.
The prologue is the last three pages of Apollyon.
Rayford, filled with rage over so many losses, contemplates killing Nicolae Carpathia. He is so obsessed with the idea that he becomes stern and short tempered at times. At the New Babylon palace, David Hassid is placed in charge of delivering 144 computers to Nicolae, but diverts the delivery by telling the pilots delivering the computers to go one place and does the paperwork for another location. Floyd Charles reveals that he was infected from delivering Hattie's stillborn child and goes to the hospital where Leah Rose works. While on the run from GC forces, Floyd Charles succumbs to the poison and dies. The International CO-OP is up and running, which will allow believers to trade when it becomes illegal to buy and sell without the Mark of the Beast.
Rayford is still wondering if he might be the one to kill Nicolae. Hattie (who also wants to kill Nicolae) runs off after an incident with Floyd. Rayford and the newest member of the Trib Force, Leah Rose, a nurse from Arthur Young Memorial Hospital in Palatine, are trying to retrieve a large quantity of cash from Leah's safe when the Sixth Trumpet Judgment hits as prophesied in Revelation 9:13-19, where a plague of death by fire, smoke, sulphur and deadly snake strikes carried out by 200 million demonic horsemen, visible only to the Tribulation saints, attack nonbelievers. Ray and Leah run into GC Peacekeeping forces and the horsemen, heading back to the safe house with the cash as the Peacekeepers are killed.
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