Arrived by Jerry B. Jenkins

what Judd termed a safe place to stay and perform their operations against the GC. Judd also said they had an option of driving into the desert to hide, but that for the moment they were staying in New Babylon.
    What happened next took Vicki’s breath away. Mark was monitoring different news feeds and came upon Anika Janssen anchoring live from Detroit. “On the preview they mentioned something about an important arrest,” Mark said.
    â€œWhere?” Vicki said.
    Mark pointed at the screen and turned up the volume.
    â€œGood evening,” Anika Janssen said. “Darkness continues to plague Global Community International Headquarters in New Babylon at this hour. It is confined to the borders of the city and is believed to be an act of aggression on the part of dissidents against the New World Order.
    â€œGC Chief of Security and Intelligence Suhail Akbar spoke with us by phone earlier from the beleaguered capital. In spite of the turmoil there, he reports good news, constituting our top story tonight.”
    The screen showed an outline of the New Babylon skyline and a picture of Suhail Akbar. “Yes, Anika,” Akbar said, “following months of careful planning and cooperation between the various law-enforcement branches of the Global Community, we are happy to report that a combined task force of crack agents from both our Peacekeeping and Morale Monitor divisions has succeeded in apprehending one of the top Judah-ite terrorists in the world.
    â€œThe arrest was made before dawn today in San Diego after months of planning.”
    â€œSan Diego!” Vicki said.
    â€œI’d rather not go into the details of the operation,” Akbar continued, “but the suspect was disarmed and arrested without incident. Her name is Chloe Steele Williams, twenty-six, a former campus radical at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, from which she was expelled six years ago after making threats on the lives of the administration.”
    â€œThank you, Chief Akbar. We have further learned that Mrs. Williams is the daughter of Rayford Steele, who once served as pilot for Global Community Supreme Potentate Nicolae Carpathia. He was fired some years ago for insubordination and drinking while on duty, and GC intelligence believes his resentment led to his current role as an international terrorist.”
    â€œI don’t believe this,” Mark said. “Those are such lies!”
    â€œMrs. Williams is the wife of Cameron Williams, formerly a celebrated American journalist who also worked directly for the potentate before losing his job due to differences in management style. He edits a subversive cyber and printed magazine with a limited circulation.
    â€œWilliams, his wife, and her father are international fugitives in exile, wanted for more than three dozen murders around the world. Mrs. Williams herself heads a black-market operation suspected of hijacking billions of Nicks’ worth of goods around the world and selling them for obscene profits to others who cannot legally buy and sell due to their refusal to pledge loyalty to the potentate.
    â€œThe Williamses, who have amassed a fortune on the black market, have one child remaining after Mrs. Williams apparently aborted two fetuses and an older daughter died under questionable circumstances. The son, whom they have named Jesus Savior Williams, pictured here, is two years old. Acquaintances report that the Williamses believe he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, who will one day conquer Nicolae Carpathia and return the globe to Christianity.”
    The screen filled with a picture of a toddler wearing a T-shirt that read “Kill Carpathia!”
    â€œThat can’t be Kenny,” Vicki said.
    â€œThere are so many lies in that report,” Conrad said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if Carpathia wrote it himself.”
    â€œDo you think they really arrested Chloe?” Vicki said.
    Mark held up a hand as