Tribulation force: the continuing drama of those left behind by Tim LaHaye

Author:Tim LaHaye
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Tribulation (Christian eschatology), Christian Theology, Christian, Fantasy fiction, Rapture (Christian eschatology), General, Christian fiction, Religion, Rayford (Fictitious character), Antichrist, Illinois, Steele, Fiction, Religious, Futuristic
ISBN: 9780842329217
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1996-12-26T06:00:00+00:00

Buck hung up from the call with Stanton Bailey and Jim Borland wondering why he didn't just accept Carpathia's offer to manage the Chicago Tribune and be done with it. He had convinced them both that he was sincere and finally got the old man's gruff approval, but he wondered if it was worth being in the doghouse again. His goal was to tie the religious stories together so neatly that Borland would get an idea how his job should be done and Bailey would get a picture of what he needed in an executive editor.

Buck didn't want that job any more than he had when Steve Plank left and Buck had been talked into it. But he sure hoped Bailey found someone who would make it fun to work there again.

He banged out some notes on his computer, in essence outlining the assignments he had acquired in the trade with Jimmy Borland. He had made the same initial assumptions Borland did about all the breaking stories. But that was before he had studied prophecy, before he knew where Nicolae Carpathia fit into the sweep of history.

Now he was hoping all these things would break at essentially the same time. It was possible he was sitting on the direct fulfillment of centuries-old prophecies. Cover stories or not, these developments would have as much impact on the short remaining history of mankind as the treaty with Israel.

Buck called Steve Plank. “Any word yet?” Steve said. “Anything I can tell the secretary-general?”

“Is that what you call him?” Buck said, astonished. “Not even you can call him by name?”

“I choose not to. It's a matter of respect, Buck. Even Hattie calls him ‘Mr. Secretary-General,’ and if I'm not mistaken, they spend almost as much time together off the job as on the job.”

“Don't rub it in. I know well enough that I introduced them.”

“You regret it? You provided a world leader with someone he adores, and you changed Hattie's life forever.”

“That's what I'm afraid of,” Buck said, realizing he was dangerously close to showing his true colors to a Carpathia confidant.

“She was a nobody from nowhere, Buck, and now she's on the front page of history.” That was not what Buck wanted to hear, but then he wasn't planning to tell Steve what he wanted to hear either. “So, what's the story, Buck?”

“I'm no closer to a decision today,” Buck said. “You know where I stand.”

“I don't understand you, Buck. Where's the glitch? What's going to make this not work? It's everything you've ever wanted.”

“I'm a journalist, Steve, not a public relations guy.”

“Is that what you're calling me?”

“That's what you are, Steve. I don't fault you for it, but don't pretend to be something you're not.”

Clearly, Buck had offended his old friend. “Yeah, well, whatever,” Steve said. “You called me, so what did you want?”

Buck told him of the deal he had made with Borland.

“Big mistake,” Steve said, still clearly steamed. “You'll recall I never assigned him a cover story.”

“This shouldn't be a cover story.

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