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Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 13
Buck’s personal pilot, Ken Ritz, is dead. He was killed by Global Community Police while trying to help the rest of the Tribulation Force get away as Rayford piloted Tsion and Chloe quickly. Buck has been falsely accused of murdering one of their policemen and is wanted dead or alive. But as Rayford moved along the runway, Buck could only grab the wire that supported the door. As the plane rose into the sky, Buck wrestled with the wire until he broke free and dropped from the plane into the underbrush beneath him that was very close to the airport. Buck has literally been left behind.
Rayford decided to fly north as fast as he could, guessing that GC forces would assume he was heading west. “Tsion, dig through Ken’s stuff and see if he has any record of friends of his in Greece. He mentioned our putting down there or Turkey if necessary.”
Tsion and Chloe opened Ken’s flight bag. “This is painful, Rayford,” Tsion said. “This brother flew me to safety when there was a bounty on my head.”
Rayford could not speak. He and Ken had clicked so quickly that he had made an instant friend. Because of their hours together in the air, he’d spent more time with him than anyone but Buck. And being closer to Ken’s age, he felt a true kinship. He knew violence and death were the price of this period of history, but how he hated the shock and grief of the losses. If he began thinking of all the tragedy he had suffered—from missing out on the Rapture with his wife and son, to the loss of Bruce, Loretta, Donny and his wife, Amanda . . . and there were more—he would go mad. Ken was in a better place, he told himself, and it sounded as hollow as any platitude. Yet he had to believe it was true. The loss was all his. Ken was finally free.
Rayford was bone weary. He was not supposed to be handling the flight back. Ken had reserved his hours behind the controls so he could pilot the Tribulation Force back to the States.
“What is all this?” Chloe asked suddenly. “He’s got lists and ideas and plans for businesses, and—”
“I’ll tell you later,” Rayford said. “He was quite the entrepreneur.”
“And brilliant,” Tsion said. “I never figured him for this kind of thinker. Some of this reads like a manifesto of survival for the saints.” “No names though?
“Nothing that looks like a contact in Greece? I’m going to start that way, just in case. I can’t fly much farther anyway.”
“But we can’t land without a local contact, can we, Dad?”
“We shouldn’t.”
“Can Mac help?”
“He’d call me if he was free to talk. I’m sure they’ve involved him in this fiasco. Pray he’ll somehow misdirect them.”
Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 13
Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 13
