The Sword of the Wormling (23 page)

In the counsel of the unholy, the Dragon opened the book and laughed. The Wormling had escaped, yes, along with his Watcher, but a mortal blow had been dealt the one they mistook for the King's Son.

All around the table, they drank and toasted their leader. They had endured the power of the Wormling and lived to tell about it. But the Wormling had delivered a death blow to four of the most menacing creatures the Dragon had ever devised and had lived to fight another day.

When the Dragon retreated to his room that night, he took the book with him, leafing through it, scoffing, coming up with twists on the truth and turns on the holy writ. As he looked out at his kingdom, he renewed his pledge to someday rule the Highlands, the Lowlands, and his invisible kingdom.

But the verse the Wormling had read kept coming back to him, sending a shiver up his spine.

He will injure the heel, but the Son will crush his head.

About the Authors

Jerry B. Jenkins
(jerryjenkins.com) is the writer of the Left Behind series. He owns the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild, an organization dedicated to mentoring aspiring authors. Former vice president for publishing for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, he also served many years as editor of
Moody
magazine and is now Moody's writer-at-large.

His writing has appeared in publications as varied as
Reader's Digest
,
Parade
,
Guideposts
, in-flight magazines, and dozens of other periodicals. Jenkins's biographies include books with Billy Graham, Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, and Nolan Ryan, among many others. His books appear regularly on the
New York Times
,
USA Today
,
Wall Street Journal
, and
Publishers Weekly
best-seller lists.

Jerry is also the writer of the nationally syndicated sports-story comic strip
Gil Thorp
, distributed to newspapers across the United States by Tribune Media Services.

Jerry and his wife, Dianna, live in Colorado and have three grown sons and four grandchildren.

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Chris Fabry
is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Colorado. He has written more than 50 books, including collaboration on the Left Behind: The Kids and Red Rock Mysteries series.

You may have heard his voice on Focus on the Family, Moody Broadcasting, or Love Worth Finding. He has also written for
Adventures in Odyssey
and
Radio Theatre
.

Chris is a graduate of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He and his wife, Andrea, have nine children, two dogs, and a large car insurance bill.