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The third millennium has just begun. A terrorist warlord more vicious than Usama bin Ladin has risen to power in the mountainous Hindu Kush region of South Asia. His dark dream is to unify Muslims worldwide in a long-running Jihad that will destroy the West. In Europe, a young Portuguese professor of astronomy and his beautiful girlfriend are contracted by NASA to help track a comet known as Wormwood...a comet hurtling toward earth in what may be a doomsday scenario. Back in the states, an American colonel serving with Army Intelligence is charged with preparing for the comet?s pending impact. But the colonel must also stop the terrorists? planned explosion of a nuclear bomb in California. The Great Tribulation has come with a vengeance.