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Originally published 1978 | 3.5/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Herbert books The Magic Cottage, The Ghosts of Sleath, Nobody True, The Survivor, The Secret of Crickley Hall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Spear is a 1978 novel by British author James Herbert dealing with Nazi occultism and the Holy Lance.
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Plot summary
The book deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and a sinister arms dealer, and their obsession with and through the occult with resurrecting Heinrich Himmler.
Court case
In an earlier version of the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail/The Da Vinci Code lawsuit, Trevor Ravenscroft sued James Herbert claiming the novel infringed on his 1973 non-fiction book The Spear of Destiny. Herbert declined to pay Ravenscroft damages and eventually removed the offending content.
References
The Spear Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA