Tim F. LaHaye

Airline captain Rayford Steele goes in search of his family and answers to how billions of people just disappeared off the face of the Earth.

It is the final year of the Great Tribulation -- and no one is safe. The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn toward the Middle East, where all the world's armies are gathered for the battle of the ages. Earth is a ticking time bomb poised to explode as Armageddon approaches, with the promise of the Glorious Appearing for those who survive.

The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgments are released upon the world. Satan falls from heaven and opens the bottomless pit, releasing Apollyon and his plague of locusts that torture the unsaved.

The third book in the saga of those left behind, "Nicolae" follows the adventures of The Tribulation Force, made up of pilot Rayford Steele, Chloe, his daughter, and reporter Buck Williams, as they wander the Earth after the Rapture.

While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future. But at the premier of his photographic exhibition, he is shocked to see Grace arm-in-arm with a well-dressed gentleman. Feeling foolish and bewildered, Dylan ponders two painful questions: Why did Grace encourage his romantic aspirations? And who is this dashing...