Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) [Paperback]

Tim LaHaye (Author), Jerry B. Jenkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

After selling nearly two million copies since its release in August 1999, Assassins in now availabe in trade paper! The seven-year Tribulation reaches its halfway mark in the sixth book of the blockbuster Left Behind series, Assassins. Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, setting the stage for the Great Tribulation.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Is it right to kill Satan's hit man? Would it help God's work? This installment in the Left Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele--"believer" and international fugitive--as he struggles with a plan to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system--all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the world--and even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously preaching to the masses of believers and converts through his cyberspace magazine The Truth. All the believers in the safe house, including Buck, Doc, Chloe, and Tsion, are suspicious of Hattie--former mistress of Carpathia--who claims to be a believer but may have already compromised their secret location when she tried to buy her way to Europe months before.

Fans of the series won't be disappointed. Jenkins's signature writing is at full force. Readers can count on a suspenseful plot, imaginative futuristic thinking, and familiar characters, all of which appear in the opening pages and are sustained until the last cliffhanger scene when God unleashes another earth-shattering disaster. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

In the continuing struggle after the Rapture, Rayford Steele and Buck Williams plan to dethrone Nicolae Carpathia and expose him as the Antichrist. LaHaye and Jenkins (Apollyon) build up a plot reminiscent of "Who Shot J.R.?" and leave us hanging after the assassination of Nicolae. Who did it, is he really dead, and when is the next book coming out? As the millennium approaches, so does interest in this series, so don't be "left behind."
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 1st Thus. edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842329277
• ISBN-13: 978-0842329279
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (436 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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84 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This Book will leave you thinking!, April 21, 2000

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Jonathan Jones - See all my reviews

This review is from: Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) (Hardcover)

After I read the last words of this book, the first word that came out of my mouth was "Wow!" This book will leave you anxiously waiting for the next book of the series.

The book begins with the Tribulation Force still hiding out in the safe house. Rayford is experiencing an incessantly growing desire to assasinate the Anti-Christ. His rage is fed even more when the Tribulation Force experiences a tragedy near the beginning of the book. The intensity of the story builds as "due time" approaches for the Two Witnesses at the Wailing Wall and Hattie mysteriously disappears. In fear that the safe house's security might be compromised, the tribulation force attempts to retrieve Hattie.

The dialogue and action in this book are extremely engaging and most readers will not be disappointed. I did, however, grow somewhat weary of the story's account of Rayford's plot to destroy Carparthia. I guess the author wanted to depict the consequences of the pressure that is put on imperfect saints. This, however, did not diminish the story's potency.

The book's explosive ending leaves many questions and will leave the readers speculating and guessing and looking forward to the next book in the series. "The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession."

49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you enjoyed Left Behind . . ., May 1, 2003

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Ashley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) (Paperback)

If you enjoy Left Behind, I would strongly second what so many other reveiwers have already said and suggest The
Christ Clone novels and We All Fall Down by Brian Caldwell. Both are similar to Left Behind but vastly different in aproach. I read them while waiting for the eleventh Left Behind and, while I love that series, found them to be just as good, and possibly better.

68 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Working my way through, but not impressed., December 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) (Hardcover)

I got these books as a Christmas gift and am tearing through them a mile a minute. Not because they're good reading, but because there's so little to them--both in content and length! Everything is so prolonged and simplistic (and redundant), that you finish them in no time at all. I will finish the rest of them this weekend but if they don't improve, I won't be buying the last installmant. A somewhat better novel in this category is CHRIST CLONE TRILOGY. Far and away the best novel of the genre is THE LAST DAY, which is vastly better written and a moving, classic spiritual thriller about the Second Coming.