Nicolae (novel)

Nicolae: The Rise of The Antichrist

The Paperback Cover
Author	Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Cover artist	Chris Butler and Brain MacDonald
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Left Behind Series
Genre	Christian Speculative fiction Apocalyptic fiction
Publisher	Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date	Wednesday, October 1, 1997
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback), Audiobook
Pages	415 pages 530 pages (Large Print)
ISBN	(hardcover), (paperback), (school and library binding), (large print hardcover)
OCLC	36876157
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3562.A315 N53 1997
Preceded by	Tribulation Force
Followed by	Soul Harvest

Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist is the third book in the Left Behind series. It was written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in 1997 and was published on Wednesday, October 1 of that year. It takes place 18–21 months into the Tribulation.

The members of the Tribulation Force have discovered that their pastor, Bruce Barnes, has been killed during the bombing of a hospital in World War III. Rayford Steele is quickly called to meet Global Community Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia in Dallas, Texas to fly him to New Babylon, Iraq. Meanwhile, Cameron "Buck" Williams and Chloe Steele go to New Hope Village Church to inform Loretta about Bruce. Chloe is in downtown Chicago, Illinois when it is bombed by the Global Community. Buck is eventually able to rescue her after she crashed her Range Rover into a tree. Rayford hears about this and sends Amanda White back to Chicago to help them and to keep her safe because Nicolae was dropping bombs on major cities and he says to her, "If your flight doesn't leave before mine, board my flight", because Ray is piloting the flight that Nicolae is on. On the flight back to New Babylon, Rayford learns much about Nicolae's secret plans through a secret intercom device installed by his former boss at Pan-Continental Airlines, Earl Halliday. Rayford eventually arrives back in New Babylon.