THEY USED DARK FORCES.
London: The Book Club, 121 Charing Cross Road, [1964]. Reprint. Octavo, original red boards lettered in black on spine panel. 375 pp. Originally issued by Hutchinson in 1964, this edition has different dust jacket artwork. Small bumps to edges of bards, a Very Good copy in the rather sensational colour pictorial dust jacket. Item #314496
¶ Potboiler spy thriller about the Nazis and their use of Black Magic during World War Two. Super-spy Geoffrey Sallust is sent to investigate rumours of a German superweapon being built in Germany. He is wounded following an air raid and encounters Ibrahim Mallacou, a Satanist. 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.
While essentially a spy thriller on the very concrete background of Nazi Germany in the last part of WWII, the tale depicts Satan as a real entity who endows his followers with supernatural powers, especially telepathy and the ability to correctly predict the future – which becomes essential in later parts of the book's plot.
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