The Spear
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A relic of unspeakable power, the Spear of Longinus — the lance said to have pierced the side of Christ — has drawn the obsessions of conquerors and occultists for millennia, and now it may be falling into the most dangerous hands of all. The Spear follows Harry Steadman, a former Mossad agent turned private investigator, who is pulled into a web of neo-Nazi conspiracy when a routine surveillance job unravels into something far more sinister — a shadowy organisation with apocalyptic ambitions and an ancient artefact at its dark heart. James Herbert, Britain's undisputed master of horror, crafts a taut, breathless narrative that fuses occult terror with Cold War-era paranoia, delivering a thriller that is as historically charged as it is viscerally frightening. Beneath the pulse-pounding action lies a chilling meditation on the seductive nature of power, fanaticism, and the thin line between myth and catastrophe — leaving the reader to wonder whether the greatest evil lies in the relic itself, or in those willing to kill for it.
Author: James Herbert
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, New English Library
Genre: Horror
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A relic of unspeakable power, the Spear of Longinus — the lance said to have pierced the side of Christ — has drawn the obsessions of conquerors and occultists for millennia, and now it may be falling into the most dangerous hands of all. The Spear follows Harry Steadman, a former Mossad agent turned private investigator, who is pulled into a web of neo-Nazi conspiracy when a routine surveillance job unravels into something far more sinister — a shadowy organisation with apocalyptic ambitions and an ancient artefact at its dark heart. James Herbert, Britain's undisputed master of horror, crafts a taut, breathless narrative that fuses occult terror with Cold War-era paranoia, delivering a thriller that is as historically charged as it is viscerally frightening. Beneath the pulse-pounding action lies a chilling meditation on the seductive nature of power, fanaticism, and the thin line between myth and catastrophe — leaving the reader to wonder whether the greatest evil lies in the relic itself, or in those willing to kill for it.