Super Short Summary

Left Behind by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye opens with airline pilot Rayford Steele on a flight to London when passengers mysteriously vanish, presumed taken by the biblical “Rapture.” As society descends into chaos, Steele, journalist Buck Williams, and others navigate the fallout, uncovering a plot involving Nicolae Carpathia, a charismatic leader rising to global power. The book contains descriptions of violence and murder, and brief mentions of death by suicide.