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To Linda and Gerald Murphy, my daughter and son-in-law, who serve me in countless ways
And to Roger Eide, adviser, consultant, but, above all, friend
Thanks to David Allen for expert technical consultation
Abdullah (“Smith’V’Smitty”) Ababneh, midtwenties, fighter pilot, Royal Jordanian Air Force, Amman
Nicolae Carpathia, 32, multilingual import/export business tycoon and member of the lower house of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
Hattie Durham, 26, Pan-Continental Airlines flight attendant, Des Plaines, Illinois
Leon Fortunato, early fifties, Carpathia’s personal and political adviser, Bucharest
Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, late sixties, Nobel Prize-winning Israeli botanist and statesman, Haifa, Israel
Chloe Steele, 19, freshman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Irene Steele, 39, wife and mother, believer in Christ for eight years, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
Rayford Steele, 41, Pan-Continental Airlines captain, Mt. Prospect
Rayford (Raymie) Steele, Jr., 11, believer in Christ for three years, Mt. Prospect
Jonathan Stonagal, eighties, billionaire American, banker and financier, Manhattan
Cameron (“Buck”) Williams, 29, senior writer for Global Weekly magazine, New York City
Viv Ivins, sixties, lifelong friend of Carpathia, Bucharest
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