Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (Left Behind No. 2)

by Tim LaHaye

Paperback, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

F LaH

Series

Left Behind (2)

Publication

Tyndale House Publishers (1996), Edition: 1, 452 pages

Genres

Christian Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Description

Rayford Steele and Cameron "Buck" Williams find themselves pressed into service for the man they believe could be the Antichrist. Nicolae Carpathia takes over the United Nations, signs a peace treaty with Israel, and begins to lure the nations of earth together to form one global village. As believers band together following the Rapture, their peaceful world is destroyed again when global war erupts. A repackage of the New York Times best-selling second book in the Left Behind series.

User reviews

LibraryThing member readingrat

I was very disappointed by this book. The ending of Left Behind led me to believe this book would be quite a bit more than it was. There was very little action or suspense in this book, it was mostly a character driven novel about the 4 main characters getting jobs, falling in love, and feeling

overwhelmed by what is to come. It does pick up a bit at the very end to set up the next book, but I'm not willing to take the bait.

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LibraryThing member ava-st-claire

This is a very interesting series, I am now on to the next book. Scary, true? Certainly thought provoking.

I'll keep reading...

LibraryThing member watertiger

So, after reading the first book in the series... I just had to read the next one.
I guess it's like eating potato chips?
Anyway, while waiting for Jesus' second coming, His followers gather up guns.
I mean really... this stuff made it to a bestseller?
YIKES!

LibraryThing member amacmillen

The group called the Tribulation Force is formed and solidified. Bruce the leader dies. Cloe and Rayford get married. Rayford also remarries. In this book Nicholae solidifies himself as the ruler of earth via the old UN. Washington and NY are attacked and the tribulation period begins.

LibraryThing member SonicQuack

Reading Tribulation Force, the second book in the Left Behind series, is akin to drinking water. The narrative is largely dialogue, and there is considerable redundancy, where the authors rehash what the reader already knows. It seems that in the effort to create a separate book for each stage of

the End Days, there is not enough actual content to do so. In fact Tribulation Force could be summed up in a few pages. That noted, this entry in the series is still quite captivating, the overall plot is still compelling. It's a simple read which reinforces the next books and enlarges upon the development of the Antichrist and his reign upon our planet.

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LibraryThing member davegregg

I enjoyed the story as fiction. I laughed, cried, fumed, and shouted--all positive things--but I want to temper that strongly by saying that I wouldn't suggest it as theological or eschatological material, as some have. I'm not really concerned with the order and how's of end-time events and

believe we waste too much time trying to figure it out. As Jesus said: "No one knows the times or the seasons, but my heavenly Father." Do worry about it. Live and hope. You don't need to have it all marked out on a calendar.If someone were to ask me what fictional literature I would suggest, this series wouldn't occur to me at all, and I wouldn't suggest it if it did. But, seeing as I have read it (except the last one and the prequels), I felt like I ought to review it. For story, I would give it three stars, maybe four. But my reservations pull that rating down to two.

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LibraryThing member adeej

Loved it - This series is great!

LibraryThing member ShortyBond

All of the Left Behind books are provacative and page turning. I read them all at least once a year.

LibraryThing member Roxy1Green

This book had my stomach in knots the entire time!! Such a good series!!

LibraryThing member mramos

This is the second book in the Left Behind series. It is not as good as the first book. And I knew this as I was reading it. But even having said that, I read it all in one night. I am hoping that this will be a bridge to the third book that will have a better story line.

This book follows the

stories of four people we met in book one. They called themselves the "Tribulation Force": Rayford Steele, an airline pilot; Chloe, his daughter; Cameron "Buck" Williams, a journalist; and Pastor Bruce Barnes. It took the rapture and losing their families to make these four Christians.

In this book we see the relationship grow rather fast between Chole and Buck. And Chole's father Rayford even finds a woman he will marry by the end of the book. Though how these four decide they should be married is not really reinforced by the plot; very unrealistic.

All four of them, The Tribulation Force, know that Carpathia is the Antichrist. Yet they agree it would be in their best interest for both Rayford and Buck to be employed by him. This leads us to see Carpathia and his dealings through the eyes of these two characters. They are the focus of this book.

I thought the best-written part was the meeting of the Rabbi and Buck with the two witnesses' of Christ at the Wailing Wall. And though the writers do include parts about the Catholic Church, they are obviously not well

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LibraryThing member neverstopreading

The first book was readable and enjoyable as a story (as long as you ignored the poor theology), but TF is much tougher to get through.

LibraryThing member carlienichole

I've only read the first two books and they've already brought me closer to God

LibraryThing member Rockhead515

Not as good as the first in the series.
The dialog writing has not improved, the people sometimes seem less intelligent, it is ridiculously repetitive, particularly in the first half.
Still a very interesting story so I really hope it gets better.

LibraryThing member classyhomemaker

Ok, I tried, I can't do it.

I was going to do a quick reread of all these Left Behind books over the next few weeks but the gripping story line (which I don't necessarily dispute, to be clear) is not enough to force me to suffer through the horrendous writing style. I was doing ok (to put it

graciously) until the 18 month jump ahead in the last quarter of the book. Waaaaay to much info, too fast. Rayford's new wife comes out of nowhere with very little back story (if I remember right, from 20 years ago, this explains itself a bit...several books later) and that's just one of the MANY things to hit the reader at once as the chapters are annoyingly rushed up at the end.

I was also REEEEally irritated with Chloe's overdramatic immature behavior. I have a hard time believing a 31 year old professional guy would have put up with all that but... Maybe the authors have super whiny wives and this is normal female behavior in their eyes.

The "fun" part of these books is reading about all the "high tech" technology that the authors imagined---stuff that has now been outdated a good 8 or 10 years. Chloe left college to come home after the Rapture, yet she needs "Buck the man" to set up her E-mail (capital "e" and hyphen included). The super high tech description of the inside of the futuristic plane: "every seat had its own phone, modem jack, VCR, and TV." The Presidential living quarters had "technology allowing the plane to communicate with anyone anywhere in the world." Wowie!

The world is so different now... Like when the characters are annoyed that they have to find something to do since they've arrived at the airport an hour before their flight takes off. Now we arrive 90 minutes early, at least...and have lots to do.

I may still finish these up over the course of the year, but for now I need a break.

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LibraryThing member foof2you

Book 2 in the Left Behind series that takes place after the rapture covered in Left Behind. The Tribulation Force consists of Rayford Steele, his daughter Chloe, reporter Buck Williams and Pastor Bruce are meeting regularly to help them and others prepare for what is coming. The world is changing

everyones lives are heading for huge changes some are aware, others do not and think all is well.

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LibraryThing member VincentDarlage

Again, reading this at the request of my wife, who loves end-of-the-world stories. I hate the title - and the characters are fairly indistinquishable - and the Biblical research is shoddy throughout the series. And I get really tired of everyone telling and re-telling their "story."

LibraryThing member AMKitty

DNF at 45%

The general plot re: beginning of the End of Days was fine. If the author had stayed with that, I could probably overlook other narrative difficulties. Probably.

But the romance story line killed this series for me. A thirty-year-old globe-trotting journalist who’s still a virgin?

Sure, it’s possible. But it was introduced in such a way that it felt contrived - engineered by the author to make the character more sparkly clean and pure.

And his love interest. A spoiled brat, ten years his junior, who plays all kinds of “read my mind and guess why I’m mad” games; but who became highly offended when her childish behavior is pointed out. By the time they reconciled, I was ready to b*tch-slap her to New Babylon and back.

Maybe I’ll try the series again, someday. But not this week.

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