Nicolae [antikvár]

PROLOGUE What Has Gone Before It has been nearly two years since the mass disappearances. In one cataclysmic instant, millions all over the globe had vanished, leaving behind everything but flesh and bone. Airline pilot Captain Rayford Steele had guided his jumbo jet back to Chicago, along with three hundred terror-filled passengers and crew. The plane had been fully loaded upon takeoff, but suddenly more than one hundred seats were empty, save for clothes, jewelry, eyeglasses, shoes, and socks. Steele lost his wife and twelve-year-old son in the vanishings. He and his college-age daughter Chloe were left behind. Cameron "Buck" Williams, senior writer for a weekly news magazine, had been on Rayford's plane. Like the pilot, he launched a frantic search for the truth. Rayford, Chloe, and Buck, along with their mentor— young pastor Bruce Barnes—become believers in Christ,