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The Trumpets, Book 5
The Last Trumpet
The sixth trumpet has sounded, and the war has come home to Springfield.
The sixth trumpet has sounded, and the war has come home to Springfield.
Two hundred million horsemen are loose at the Euphrates, and a third of mankind is dead. In Missouri the mobilization arrives as paperwork: deployable status now requires the Acknowledgment, a ninety-second ceremony, a small placement on the hand or the face, a name spoken in allegiance. Worship, the Concord calls it. Enlistment, Sergeant First Class Marcus Webb calls it, and Marcus Webb knows uniforms. For fifteen years the uniform has been his church: its creases his creed, its ranks his sacraments, its orders the voice he has obeyed without asking whose it was.
All he has to do is stand in line and complete it, and he can ship with his men.
Marcus Webb steps back.
The court-martial takes his rank, his pay, and the only identity he has ever worn. His son Tyler, seventeen and hungry to belong, is offered the place of honor at the mass allegiance ceremony, one step from the chair every boy in the county is lining up to sit in. His best friend ships to the war unmarked and comes back on the missing lists. And in a fairgrounds field packed with tens of thousands, the most famous preacher alive lifts his hands to heaven and waits for a sign.
Heaven is about to give one. The seventh trumpet. The temple opened. The ark seen by the whole earth at once. The kingdoms of this world, changing hands.
The Last Trumpet is the fifth and final book of The Trumpets, the Christian end-times saga from Caden Noir. The war is His. The work is witness. The worst is still to come.
But the ending is written.