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‘When the lamb opened the first seal,
I heard the first living creature say, “Come and see!”
I looked, and there before me was a
white horse.
Its rider held a bow, and he was given a
crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest...’
In April of 1961, a pair of covert
CIA operatives interrupt a dead drop in Tehran, and make away
with information intended for the Soviet Union’s international
network of spies.
The contents of the intercepted
package are strange.
Four envelopes with elaborate
wax seals, enclosing four cryptic passages from the Bible’s book
of Revelation.
The members of a U.S. Army
Intelligence team in Munich are convinced that the biblical
references are the signal for a major Soviet offensive against
the United States. As President John F. Kennedy trades threats
and political jabs with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, U.S.
intelligence agents play a lethal game of cat and mouse with the
KGB.
At stake are the future of West
Berlin, and—quite
possibly—the
continued existence of the human race.
The world’s nuclear superpowers are
rushing toward what may be their final confrontation.
The countdown to Armageddon is
on…
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