In James Herbert's The Spear, when Harry Steadman agrees to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he has no idea he will be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy of neo-Nazi cultists bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world. It is a power rising out of a demonic relic from man's dark primal past to threaten humanity with horror from beyond any nightmare . . .