"Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins - Left Behind Series 11 - Armageddon" - читать интересную книгу автора (LaHaye Tim)

plane crash; underground in Long Grove, Illinois
Leah Rose, early forties; former head nurse, Arthur Young Memorial
Hospital, Palatine, Illinois; under-ground in Long Grove, Illinois
Lionel Whalum, late forties; former businessman; Co-op pilot;
underground in Long Grove, Illinois
Chang Wong, twenty; Ming Toy's brother; Trib Force's mole at Global
Community Headquarters, New Babylon
Gustaf Zuckermandel Jr. (aka "Zeke" or "Z"), mid-twenties;
document and appearance forger; lost father to guillotine; underground in Avery,
Wisconsin


The E n e m i e s

Nicolae Jetty Carpathia, late thirties; former president of Romania;
former secretary-general, United Nations; self-appointed Global Community
potentate; assassinated in Jerusalem; resurrected at GC Palace complex, New
Babylon
Leon Fortunato, mid-fifties; former supreme commander and Carpathia's
right hand; now Most High Reverend Father of Carpathianism, proclaiming the
potentate as the risen god; GC Palace, New Babylon
Viv Ivins, late sixties; lifelong friend of Carpathia; GC operative; GC
Palace, New Babylon
Suhail Akbar, mid-forties; Carpathia's chief of Security and Intelligence;
GC Palace, New Babylon

PROLOGUE

From The Remnant

"FOR THE FIRST time in a long time," Nicolae Carpathia said, "we play on
an even field. The waterways are heal-ing themselves, and we have rebuilding to
do in the infra-structure. Let us work at getting all our loyal citizens back onto
the same page with us. Director Akbar and I have some special surprises in store
for dissidents on various levels. We are back in business, people. It is time to
recoup our losses and start delivering a few."

The new mood lasted three days. Then the lights went out. Literally.
Everything went dark. Not just the sun, but the moon also, the stars, street
lamps, electric lights, car lights. Anything anywhere that ever emitted light was
now dark. No keypads on telephones, no flashlights, nothing iridescent, nothing
glow-in-the-dark. Emergency lights, exit signs, fire signs, alarm signs-everything.
Pitch-black.
The cliche of not being able to see one's hand in front of one's face? Now
true. It mattered not what time of day it was; people could see nothing. Not
their clocks, watches, not even fire, matches, gas grills, electric grills. It was as if
the light had done worse than go out; any vestige of it had been sucked from
the universe.
People screamed in terror, finding this the worst nightmare of their lives-
and they had many to choose from. They were blind-completely, utterly, totally,