Two White House advisors question whether the apocalypse is coming as a dictator comes to power in Russia and Iran builds its nuclear power program What if the end is closer than you think?Saddam Hussein is gone. Yasser Arafat is dead. An American president is trying to spread freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East. But suddenly new evils loom on the horizon. A dictator is rising in Russia. Iran is feverishly building nuclear weapons. A new Axis of Evil is emerging, led by Moscow and Tehran. And Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy--two senior White House advisors--find themselves facing the most chilling question of their lives: Is the world rushing to the brink of an apocalypse prophesied more than 2,500 years ago? The President of the United States James ``Mac'' MacPherson The Vice President of the United States William Harvard Oaks The Principals Marsha Kirkpatrick, National Security Advisor Jack Mitchell, Director of Central Intelligence Burt Trainor, Secretary of Defense Nick Warner, Secretary of State Senior Administration Officials Jon Bennett, Senior Advisor to the President Bob Corsetti, White House Chief of Staff Ken Costello, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Erin McCoy, Senior Advisor to the President, on loan from the CIA Indira Rajiv, Director of the Namestan Desk, CIA Chuck Murray, White House Press Secretary Israeli Leaders David Doron, Prime Minister of Israel Dr. Eliezer Mordechai, Former head of Mossad Russian Leaders Grigoriy Vadim, President of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Golitsyn, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Zyuganov, Director of Presidential Administration (Chief of Staff) Sergei Ilyushkin, Deputy Speaker of the Duma: Protege of Vladimir Zhirinovsky Al-Nakbah Leaders Yuri Gogolov, Russian Cofounder of Al-Nakbah Terrorist Movement Mohammed Jibril, Iranian Cofounder of Al-Nakbah Others Mustafa Al-Hassani, President of Iraq Ruth Bennett, Mother of Jon Bennett Salvador Lucente, European Union Foreign Minister Ibrahim Sa'id, Palestinian Prime Minister Ifshahan Kharrazi, President of Iran