"And if Carpathia was indeed the Antichrist - and most people except his followers thought he was - he wouldn't stay dead anyway."
Chap. 1, p. 5

"Among the earliest believers following the Rapture, the Tribulation Force was committed to winning people to Christ, opposing the Antichrist, and surviving until the reappearing of Christ, now just over three and a half years away."
Chap. 2, p. 13

"On the other hand, if he wasn't going bats and if he really had been chosen of God to have a part in a centuries-old assassination plot, he was someone special after all."
Chap. 4, p. 65

"Rayford gaped at a tail consisting not of hair but rather a writhing, sinewy, serpent with a head twice the size of Rayford's fist."
Chap. 8, p. 127

"He switched to a news radio feed. 'No one has an answer yet to the puzzling rash of fires, outbreaks of smoke, and noxious...