26 minutes and 51 seconds. How can the world change in 26 minutes and 51 seconds? But it can, and it does, just as it did 100 days earlier on September 11, 2029. A worldwide blackout brings a fiery darkness that invades the earth with pure evil directly from the pit of hell. Blake and Beth Jennings Thompson fire the first shot in the battle against Aissa Messai and his forces. It begins a war that will rage for the remaining six and half years of Planet Earth. It will lead to worldwide death and destruction. The fight for survival becomes real. As Messai increases in power, his hatred for the Smyrnians intensifies. Episode Two in The Apocalypse series, this end-of-times thriller will hurtle you into the middle of the conflict as the Tribulation heats up.