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* KickTheSonOfABitch: While he realises his own brutality will later sicken him, the bestially enraged Steadman overpowers murdering sadist Kohner; forces him into the live fireplace, and interrogatively snaps one of his fingers.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: While he realises his own brutality will later sicken him, the bestially enraged Steadman overpowers murdering sadist Kohner; forces him into the live fireplace, and interrogatively snaps one of his fingers.
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Approached by MI5 agent Nigel Pope, Steadman is compelled to take the case. At the small Guildford mansion of weapons manufacturer Edward Gant, Steadman and journalist Holly Miles, alone on the estate, are near-fatally chased by a Chieftain tank - whose eventual wreck reveals no occupant.
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Approached by MI5 [=MI5=] agent Nigel Pope, Steadman is compelled to take the case. At the small Guildford mansion of weapons manufacturer Edward Gant, Steadman and journalist Holly Miles, alone on the estate, are near-fatally chased by a Chieftain tank - whose eventual wreck reveals no occupant.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Various worldwide people of socioeconomic influence are revealed to have chosen Gant’s neo-Nazism over current political corruption; notably [[spoiler: MI5 agent Nigel Pope]] and UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 veteran [[spoiler: Major General Cutbush, US Forces Deputy Commander]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: Various worldwide people of socioeconomic influence are revealed to have chosen Gant’s neo-Nazism over current political corruption; notably [[spoiler: MI5 [=MI5=] agent Nigel Pope]] and UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 veteran [[spoiler: Major General Cutbush, US Forces Deputy Commander]].
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* AllGermansAreNazis: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; while [[spoiler: displaced German Gant]] is a keen Nazi, fifty-eight-year-old German Jewish-born Mossad agent Joseph Solomon Smith, in refuge from Nazi persecution, fled to England.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; while [[spoiler: displaced German Gant]] is a keen Nazi, fifty-eight-year-old German Jewish-born Mossad agent Joseph Solomon Smith, in refuge from Nazi persecution, fled to England.
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* TortureTechnician: Kohner tortures David Goldblatt and Hannah Rosen.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Various worldwide people of socio-economic influence are revealed to have chosen Gant’s neo-Nazism over current political corruption; notably [[spoiler: MI5 agent Nigel Pope]] and UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 veteran [[spoiler: Major General Cutbush, US Forces Deputy Commander]].
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A 1978 novel by Creator/JamesHerbert. Private Investigator and British Army veteran Harry Steadman, asked by Mossad agents to find the missing brother of his deceased lover Lilla, refuses further involvement. His partner Maggie Wyeth discreetly takes the case, and is murdered.
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A 1978 novel by Creator/JamesHerbert.
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* BodyDouble: [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]]'s suicide in British custody is depicted to have been committed by Feldpolizei corporal Heinz Hintzinger.
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* BodyDouble: [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]]'s UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler]]'s suicide in British custody is depicted to have been committed by Feldpolizei corporal Heinz Hintzinger.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: Weapons manufacturing heir Edward Gant, real name [[spoiler: Erik Gantzer]], claims to have helped introduce UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to Thule mysticism. While Hitler outwardly dissociated from them, Himmler remained devoted, and after the war, sought to hide the secretly acquired Spear of Longinus, whose piercing of the side of Christ is thought to have imbued it with regenerative powers. Gant's custody of the Spear helps medium Dr Scheur [[spoiler: channel and sustain the spirit of Heinrich Himmler]].
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* {{Ghostapo}}: Weapons manufacturing heir Edward Gant, real name [[spoiler: Erik Gantzer]], claims to have helped introduce UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to Thule mysticism. While Hitler outwardly dissociated from them, Himmler remained devoted, and after the war, sought to hide the secretly acquired Spear of Longinus, whose piercing of the side of Christ is thought to have imbued it with regenerative powers. Gant's custody of the Spear helps medium Dr Scheur [[spoiler: channel and sustain the spirit of Heinrich Himmler]].UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler]].
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Beneath Gant's recreated Wewelsburg, a crypt houses [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler's]] mummified corpse. Trained to drain the vitality of living bodies, the corpse’s discarnate spirit eventually returns to its decayed earthly vessel.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[spoiler: Holly and Baruch]] have mere minutes to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s missile]].
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[spoiler: Holly and Baruch]] have mere minutes to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s missile]]. Gant's missile]].
* RevenantZombie: Beneath Gant's recreated Wewelsburg, a crypt houses [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler's]] mummified corpse. Trained to drain the vitality of living bodies, the corpse's discarnate spirit eventually returns to its decayed earthly vessel.
* RevenantZombie: Beneath Gant's recreated Wewelsburg, a crypt houses [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler's]] mummified corpse. Trained to drain the vitality of living bodies, the corpse's discarnate spirit eventually returns to its decayed earthly vessel.
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* HeroicWillpower: Just before [[spoiler: Himmler]]'s mummified, reanimated fingers reach the Spear, a near-paralysed Gant [[spoiler: manages to lunge forward]].
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* PowerGlows: The Legendary Spear of Longinus exudes a blue glow.
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* TheLostLenore: Mossad agent Lilla Kanaan, Steadman's colleague and romantic partner, was killed by a telephone signal-triggered bomb.
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* StupidEvil: As a test, Gant deliberately leaves Steadman in the hands of blood-crazed incompetent Kohner.
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* BadIsGood: Gants says Hitler to have deplored "the Christian good" as oppositional to his mystical racial supremacism.
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A 1978 novel by Creator/JamesHerbert. Private Investigator and British Army Harry Steadman, asked to find the missing brother of his deceased lover Lilla, refuses further involvement. His partner Maggie Wyeth discreetly takes the case, and is murdered.
Approached by MI5 agent Nigel Pope, Steadman is compelled to take the case. At the small Guildford mansion of weapons manufacturer Edward Gant, Steadman and journalist Holly Miles, alone on the estate, are near-fatally chased by a Chieftain tank - whose eventual wreck reveals no occupant.
Steadman’s further investigation reveals Gant’s well-connected acquaintances - and his past membership of the Nazi-influencing Thule Gesellschaft…
!!This novel provides examples of:
*TheApprentice: Steadman’s young trainee Steve.
*AllGermansAreNazis: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; while [[spoiler: displaced German Gant]] is a keen Nazi, fifty-eight-year-old German Jewish-born Mossad agent Joseph Solomon Smith, in refuge from Nazi persecution, fled to England.
*ArmsDealer: Of weapons, Edward Gant is a renowned designer and indiscriminate supplier.
*AssassinationAttempt: To prevent Middle Eastern peace, [[spoiler: Gant plans to launch a missile at the plane of the visiting US Secretary of State. Near the shoreline, Holly finds the launcher]].
*BadIsGood: Gants says Hitler to have deplored "the Christian good" as oppositional to his mystical racial supremacism.
*BetterAsFriends: Steadman and Maggie were romantically involved, but remained friends.
*BigFancyHouse: A highly sinister variant in Gant's North Devon estate, whose rear section is modelled on Heinrich Himmler’s Wewelsburg fortress.
*BodyDouble: [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]]'s suicide in British custody is depicted to have been committed by Feldpolezei corporal Heinz Hintzinger.
*TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Baruch Kanaan]], BoundAndGagged in the Wewelsburg, on release by Holly, arrives just in time to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s ritual murder of Steadman]].
*TheChosenOne: Gant, castrated by a bomb explosion, believes himself to reincarnated from Klingsor, inspiration for Music/RichardWagner's opera ''Parsifal''.
*ColdBloodedTorture: In attempt to coerce information from Steadman, Felix Kohner threatens with torture chair-bound agents David and Hannah.
*DemonicPossession: The face of elderly medium Dr Scheur briefly channels the features of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Himmler’s reanimate mummified corpse]], in pursuit of the Spear, pursues Steadman outside - and falls into [[spoiler: the flaming pit of the missile launcher]].
*EmergencyAuthority: Through unscrupulous manipulation; terrorist arming and influential sympathisers, the Thule Society aim to steer global politics to authoritarianism whose only ultimate alternative will be their own system.
*EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Retired police officer Blake, employed by Steadman's agency, is known to his colleagues as Sexton.
*FatBastard:
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Sue, Steadman’s plump "godsend" of a secretary.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[spoiler: Nigel Pope, whose obese bulk]] is unrelated to his [[AffablyEvil genially subdued malignancy]].
*FrightDeathTrap: Mossad sleeper agent Joseph Solomon Smith, on a nightly watch of Steadman’s house, investigates an apparent break-in, and, on sight of the spectral silhouette of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], suffers fatal heart failure.
*{{Ghostapo}}: Weapons manufacturing heir Edward Gant, real name [[spoiler: Erik Gantzer]], claims to have helped introduce UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to Thule mysticism. While Hitler outwardly dissociated from them, Himmler remained devoted, and after the war, sought to hide the secretly acquired Spear of Longinus, whose piercing of the side of Christ is thought to have imbued it with regenerative powers. Gant's custody of the Spear helps medium Dr Scheur [[spoiler: channel and sustain the spirit of Heinrich Himmler]].
*GhostlyChill: On approach by the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], the candlelit Wewelsburg hall suddenly turns cold.
*HauntedTechnology: A Chieftain tank, spectrally propelled by [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*HeelFaceTurn: Various worldwide people of socio-economic influence are revealed to have chosen Gant’s neo-Nazism over current political corruption; notably [[spoiler: MI5 agent Nigel Pope]] and UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 veteran [[spoiler: Major General Cutbush, US Forces Deputy Commander]].
*HeroicSacrifice: Into the path of the missile, [[spoiler: Baruch]] pilots a helicopter.
*HeroicWillpower: Just before [[spoiler: Himmler]]'s mummified, reanimated fingers reach the Spear, a near-paralysed Gant [[spoiler: manages to lunge forward]].
*HiddenDepths: Trainee private investigator Steve’s love of opera helps shed light on Gant’s fanaticism.
*IntrepidReporter: Freelance journalist Holly Miles, with Steadman, becomes entwined in Gant's sinister machinations.
*KickTheSonOfABitch: While he realises his own brutality will later sicken him, the bestially enraged Steadman overpowers murdering sadist Kohner; forces him into the live fireplace, and interrogatively snaps one of his fingers.
*TheLostLenore: Mossad agent Lilla Kanaan, Steadman's colleague and romantic partner, was killed by a telephone signal-triggered bomb.
*MyGreatestFailure: A brutally sad example - Joseph Solomon Smith recalls his failure to challenge the SS thugs who beat, molested and dragged his family from their home.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Beneath Gant's recreated Wewelsburg, a crypt houses [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler's]] mummified corpse. Trained to drain the vitality of living bodies, the corpse’s discarnate spirit eventually returns to its decayed earthly vessel.
*PoliceAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; retired policeman Sexton uses his connections to arrange [[spoiler: an army raid on the Wewelsburg]].
*PowerGlows: The Legendary Spear of Longinus exudes a blue glow.
*PrivateMilitaryContractors: Gant’s private, fifty-strong army, "the Soldiers of the Fourth Reich".
*RaceAgainstTheClock: [[spoiler: Holly and Baruch]] have mere minutes to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s missile]].
*{{Sadist}}: Felix Kohner, son of a Nazi colonel, is enthusiastically well-versed in how to inflict bodily pain.
*SpookySeance: In the hall of Gant’s Wewelsburg replica, Dr Scheur channels the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: Having found a decoy to be captured in his place, Heinrich Himmler, with Erik Gantzer, later known as Edward Gant]] are depicted to have discreetly fled to England.
*StatuesqueStunner: Kristina.
*StupidEvil: As a test, Gant deliberately left Steadman in the hands of blood-crazed incompetent Kohner.
*UnderCoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Posing as a freelance journalist, Holly Miles]] is an undercover US agent.
*UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: Kristina]]'s attempt to seduce Steadman is decisively halted by his realisation of [[spoiler: her to be a hermaphrodite]].
*UnstoppableRage: When Kohner frustratedly murders [[spoiler: the chair-bound David and Hannah]], Steadman escapes the distracted Craven’s grip, and flies into a lethal rage.
*TheVamp: In ritual allusion to Music/RichardWagner's ''Parsifal'', Gant has Kristina try to seduce Steadman.
*VampiricDraining: Dr Scheur, on contact with the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], trained him to manifest by draining the energy of living bodies.
A 1978 novel by Creator/JamesHerbert. Private Investigator and British Army Harry Steadman, asked to find the missing brother of his deceased lover Lilla, refuses further involvement. His partner Maggie Wyeth discreetly takes the case, and is murdered.
Approached by MI5 agent Nigel Pope, Steadman is compelled to take the case. At the small Guildford mansion of weapons manufacturer Edward Gant, Steadman and journalist Holly Miles, alone on the estate, are near-fatally chased by a Chieftain tank - whose eventual wreck reveals no occupant.
Steadman’s further investigation reveals Gant’s well-connected acquaintances - and his past membership of the Nazi-influencing Thule Gesellschaft…
!!This novel provides examples of:
*TheApprentice: Steadman’s young trainee Steve.
*AllGermansAreNazis: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; while [[spoiler: displaced German Gant]] is a keen Nazi, fifty-eight-year-old German Jewish-born Mossad agent Joseph Solomon Smith, in refuge from Nazi persecution, fled to England.
*ArmsDealer: Of weapons, Edward Gant is a renowned designer and indiscriminate supplier.
*AssassinationAttempt: To prevent Middle Eastern peace, [[spoiler: Gant plans to launch a missile at the plane of the visiting US Secretary of State. Near the shoreline, Holly finds the launcher]].
*BadIsGood: Gants says Hitler to have deplored "the Christian good" as oppositional to his mystical racial supremacism.
*BetterAsFriends: Steadman and Maggie were romantically involved, but remained friends.
*BigFancyHouse: A highly sinister variant in Gant's North Devon estate, whose rear section is modelled on Heinrich Himmler’s Wewelsburg fortress.
*BodyDouble: [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]]'s suicide in British custody is depicted to have been committed by Feldpolezei corporal Heinz Hintzinger.
*TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Baruch Kanaan]], BoundAndGagged in the Wewelsburg, on release by Holly, arrives just in time to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s ritual murder of Steadman]].
*TheChosenOne: Gant, castrated by a bomb explosion, believes himself to reincarnated from Klingsor, inspiration for Music/RichardWagner's opera ''Parsifal''.
*ColdBloodedTorture: In attempt to coerce information from Steadman, Felix Kohner threatens with torture chair-bound agents David and Hannah.
*DemonicPossession: The face of elderly medium Dr Scheur briefly channels the features of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Himmler’s reanimate mummified corpse]], in pursuit of the Spear, pursues Steadman outside - and falls into [[spoiler: the flaming pit of the missile launcher]].
*EmergencyAuthority: Through unscrupulous manipulation; terrorist arming and influential sympathisers, the Thule Society aim to steer global politics to authoritarianism whose only ultimate alternative will be their own system.
*EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Retired police officer Blake, employed by Steadman's agency, is known to his colleagues as Sexton.
*FatBastard:
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Sue, Steadman’s plump "godsend" of a secretary.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[spoiler: Nigel Pope, whose obese bulk]] is unrelated to his [[AffablyEvil genially subdued malignancy]].
*FrightDeathTrap: Mossad sleeper agent Joseph Solomon Smith, on a nightly watch of Steadman’s house, investigates an apparent break-in, and, on sight of the spectral silhouette of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], suffers fatal heart failure.
*{{Ghostapo}}: Weapons manufacturing heir Edward Gant, real name [[spoiler: Erik Gantzer]], claims to have helped introduce UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to Thule mysticism. While Hitler outwardly dissociated from them, Himmler remained devoted, and after the war, sought to hide the secretly acquired Spear of Longinus, whose piercing of the side of Christ is thought to have imbued it with regenerative powers. Gant's custody of the Spear helps medium Dr Scheur [[spoiler: channel and sustain the spirit of Heinrich Himmler]].
*GhostlyChill: On approach by the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], the candlelit Wewelsburg hall suddenly turns cold.
*HauntedTechnology: A Chieftain tank, spectrally propelled by [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*HeelFaceTurn: Various worldwide people of socio-economic influence are revealed to have chosen Gant’s neo-Nazism over current political corruption; notably [[spoiler: MI5 agent Nigel Pope]] and UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 veteran [[spoiler: Major General Cutbush, US Forces Deputy Commander]].
*HeroicSacrifice: Into the path of the missile, [[spoiler: Baruch]] pilots a helicopter.
*HeroicWillpower: Just before [[spoiler: Himmler]]'s mummified, reanimated fingers reach the Spear, a near-paralysed Gant [[spoiler: manages to lunge forward]].
*HiddenDepths: Trainee private investigator Steve’s love of opera helps shed light on Gant’s fanaticism.
*IntrepidReporter: Freelance journalist Holly Miles, with Steadman, becomes entwined in Gant's sinister machinations.
*KickTheSonOfABitch: While he realises his own brutality will later sicken him, the bestially enraged Steadman overpowers murdering sadist Kohner; forces him into the live fireplace, and interrogatively snaps one of his fingers.
*TheLostLenore: Mossad agent Lilla Kanaan, Steadman's colleague and romantic partner, was killed by a telephone signal-triggered bomb.
*MyGreatestFailure: A brutally sad example - Joseph Solomon Smith recalls his failure to challenge the SS thugs who beat, molested and dragged his family from their home.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Beneath Gant's recreated Wewelsburg, a crypt houses [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler's]] mummified corpse. Trained to drain the vitality of living bodies, the corpse’s discarnate spirit eventually returns to its decayed earthly vessel.
*PoliceAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; retired policeman Sexton uses his connections to arrange [[spoiler: an army raid on the Wewelsburg]].
*PowerGlows: The Legendary Spear of Longinus exudes a blue glow.
*PrivateMilitaryContractors: Gant’s private, fifty-strong army, "the Soldiers of the Fourth Reich".
*RaceAgainstTheClock: [[spoiler: Holly and Baruch]] have mere minutes to stop [[spoiler: Gant’s missile]].
*{{Sadist}}: Felix Kohner, son of a Nazi colonel, is enthusiastically well-versed in how to inflict bodily pain.
*SpookySeance: In the hall of Gant’s Wewelsburg replica, Dr Scheur channels the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]].
*StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: Having found a decoy to be captured in his place, Heinrich Himmler, with Erik Gantzer, later known as Edward Gant]] are depicted to have discreetly fled to England.
*StatuesqueStunner: Kristina.
*StupidEvil: As a test, Gant deliberately left Steadman in the hands of blood-crazed incompetent Kohner.
*UnderCoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Posing as a freelance journalist, Holly Miles]] is an undercover US agent.
*UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: Kristina]]'s attempt to seduce Steadman is decisively halted by his realisation of [[spoiler: her to be a hermaphrodite]].
*UnstoppableRage: When Kohner frustratedly murders [[spoiler: the chair-bound David and Hannah]], Steadman escapes the distracted Craven’s grip, and flies into a lethal rage.
*TheVamp: In ritual allusion to Music/RichardWagner's ''Parsifal'', Gant has Kristina try to seduce Steadman.
*VampiricDraining: Dr Scheur, on contact with the spirit of [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]], trained him to manifest by draining the energy of living bodies.
