jonathan_von 's review for:

La Lance by Thierry Arson, James Herbert

3.0

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I wanted to read a James Herbert book and this was the shortest available option. Maybe if I’d known it was a spy novel about Nazi cultists and Israeli assassins, it might have thought twice. It’s a decently fun action movie in structure but the best parts are long magical diatribes about the spiritual war between British logic and fascist thinking. Herbert uses a lot of actual Hitler and Himmler quotes, and the book sort of rhetorically combats undead nazism in an interesting way. Slowly turns up the horror in the second half, but it still didn’t really do it for me. It does have some undead, spear of Jesus action, so it does what it promises. Reminds me of Brian Lumley’s more spy-horror stuff.