not for the astute

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First, please see the Editorial Reviews on amazon.com, and the synopsis on amazon.co.uk--those are the good parts of this book, the 11th in the Left Behind series.
Admittedly, the action is breathtakingly-good--rather like Damien in the set of Star Wars. Indeed, if it were in the form of a comic book (as in "Dragonslayer"), or in a movie shown at Disneyworld, where everyone is in suspended animation, it would more than sufficiently explain why the series has hitherto sold more than 50 million copies.
But to anyone who, while gripped by each scene as it unfolds, still keeps track of the rest of the story, questions abound:
[1] Nicholae Jetty Carpathia, the Anti-Christ,
has a secretary who gladly chooses eternal damnation,
but at the same time feeds information to the Christian and Jewish rebels?
[2] Nicky--he is too shallow to be scary, so I shall be familiar with him--
is too preoccupied with preparations for battle, that he lets her be