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Ree Woo, mid-twenties; husband of Ming Toy Woo; a principal pilot on Trib Force assignment at
Petra

Gustaf Zuckermandel Jr. (aka "Zeke" or "Z"), late twenties; document and appearance forger;
lost father to guillotine; on Trib Force assignment at Petra

The Recently Martyred

Al B. (aka "Albie"), early fifties; native of Al Basrah, north of Kuwait; pilot; former international
black marketer; member of Trib Force; murdered in Al Basrah

Tsion Ben-Judah, early fifties; former rabbinical scholar and Israeli statesman; revealed belief in
Jesus as Messiah on international TVтАФwife and two teenagers subsequently murdered; escaped to
U.S.; former spiritual leader and teacher of Trib Force; had cyberaudience of more than a billion
daily; taught the Jewish remnant at Petra; slain defending the Old City in Jerusalem

Chloe Steele Williams, mid-twenties; former student, Stanford University; lost mother and brother
in the Rapture; daughter of Rayford; wife of Buck; mother of four-and-a-half-year-old Kenny
Bruce; original Trib Force member; former CEO of the Co-op; guillotined by the GC at the former
Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois

The Enemies

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; leading massive Unity Army forces in the Valley of
Megiddo; last seen outside Herod's Gate on the Suleiman Road in Jerusalem
Leon Fortunate, late fifties; former supreme commander and Carpathia's right hand; now Most
High Reverend Father of Carpathianism, proclaiming the potentate as the risen god; Unity Army
command post, Megiddo

Viv Ivins, early seventies; lifelong friend of Carpathia; GC operative; Unity Army command post,
Megiddo

Suhail Akbar, mid-forties; Carpathia's chief of Security and Intelligence; One World Unity Army
command post, Megiddo
 PROLOGUE


From Armageddon

RAYFORD STARTED down the back side of Petra, finding it even more harrowing than
coming up. He had stayed with Chang and Naomi a little longer than he had planned, so he
assumed Mac would be looking for him and that George thought he had already arrived.
From his vantage point he had a good view of the army a mile off. He was reaching for his phone
to reassure Mac when it became clear something had happened. The front lines were recoiling
again, so George must have initiated another burst of the directed energy weapons.
This time, however, despite the ensuing chaos, the Unity Army didn't take it sitting down.
Rayford heard the booms of retaliatory fire, like thunder from a stormhead a hundred miles wide.
He knew enough about munitions to know that Carpathia's forces were a little far away to be using