Sepulchre

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An investigation that brings up numerous questions as to why so many rooms are locked and off bounds to their chief of security. Revelation after revelation after revelation bombards the reader, as Herbert throws all he’s got into the final mix. Kline's an arrogant and obnoxious fellow who looks "nothing like a genius, and nothing like a wizard" (p.

There was an extra chapter that was removed from the novel by Herbert himself, which you can read within Herbert's biography - Devil In The Dark. The intriguing corporate element that Herbert has brought into the early quarter of the storyline seems to magnify the threat to a much higher degree. From a tension heavy thriller to a vicious supernatural horror that has been carried over hundreds of years, the tale’s journey has somehow amounted to one hell of a ride, ending in a truly dramatic and fitting finale.Our main man is the aforementioned Halloran, a bodyguard working for the security company Achilles' Shield. No Kill like Overkill: With Kline shot, and the embalmed heart of Bel-Marduk crushed, Halloran feeds its remains to one of Kline's jackals, then dismembers Kline in the manner of Bel-Marduk, leaving him to die in his own sepulchre. Post the days of The Fog, The Rats, The Survivor I lost the feel for Herbert's work as it seemed to move away from the heights of his earlier work; The Sepulchre feels like a tentative move back to his roots with some well crafted character and story development to build the reality within which the horror can emerge and work well within. You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: On paralysis by Halloran, Kline takes Monk down to his sepulchre for sacrifice.

Herbert dug up or probably just plain made up stuff about Sumeria and their gods that constitute the supernatural component here; it was so unique it was interesting. I'm not recommending this to anyone, as it's so offensive, extremely boring, and has a "twist" at the end that you can see coming for miles. Private Military Contractors: A converted London wharfside warehouse houses Achilles' Shield, a bodyguard agency staffed by ex-military personnel.That said, I did enjoy the read and was mildly entertained, but I can't say it is my favourite Herbert book and I'm not sure I would feel the need to read it again. Then again, either one of these tissue-thin plots would, on their own, be not only little more effective but utterly unable to carry a novel. Old Soldier: SAS Major Gerald Snaith and MBE Charles Mather, having sustained a permanent limp, serve respectively as Controller and Planner for Achilles' Shield.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Stay with it Herbert fans because it does gradually offer up some great chapters and scenes you would expect from the author. He is assigned to protect the most valuable asset of the Magma Corporation who turns out to be a man named Felix Kline.Our Liches Are Different: Kline, whose custody of the preserved heart of Bel Marduk transfers his bodily ageing onto an ancient, unnamed "Keeper", and requires periodic shedding of his skin, may indeed be considered an undead sorcerer. As the tale progresses, the injection of the Sumerian mythology into the proceeding plotline suddenly takes on a whole new level.

The Serpent in the Garden is traced to Bel-Marduk, an incarnate deity who advanced the Sumerians; demanded Human Sacrifice, and was eventually dismembered and left to die by the high priests - his limbless body earned the name Serpent.For a long while, the book reads like a crime thriller with added details of ancient eastern and Sumerian culture (which eventually connect up with the present tale) similar to some of the crime thriller novels of Shaun Hutson. The Spear deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and an arms dealer. Granted, 1987 is a ways back, there were people even then sensitive to racial issues and the unfair depictions of characters based on the myth of race and the many negative cliches surrounding them. The novel incorporates many similarities between ‘ The Spear ’ (1978) and perhaps even ‘ The Jonah ’ (1981), with the predominant thriller/horror crossover, as well as the uncovering of age old secrets that have transcended vast amounts of time.