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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-7493-0677-7

Originally published
  
1964

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publication date
  
1964

Pages
  
511 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
823.912

Author
  
Dennis Wheatley

Publisher
  
Hutchinson

OCLC
  
24669314

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Dennis Wheatley books, World War II books

They Used Dark Forces is the final part of Gregory Sallust's wartime experiences. In this novel Sallust is sent to investigate rumours of a German superweapon being built in Peenemünde. He is wounded following an air raid and encounters Ibrahim Mallacou a Jewish Satanist who uses hypnotism to relieve his pain whilst treating his injuries. He encounters Mallacou again when he is trapped in Poland attempting to smuggle out parts of a V1 rocket after several adventures including imprisonment and dinner with Hermann Göring the unlikely pair find themselves in Hitler's bunker during the siege of Berlin where they attempt to persuade him to take his own life rather than fight on.

Links to other Gregory Sallust stories

This novel concludes the stories of Obergruppenführer Grauber, Sallust's long term opponent, Graf von Ostenburg, the husband of Gregory's beloved Erica, and of his occasional lover Sabine.

References

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