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Piecing together a vast array of sources, like some kind of history detective, Smith has constructed a haunting, vivid tale so intriguing and entertaining you'll forget that you're actually reliving a lost chapter of history. Enter the twisted mind of Hitler's right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler, where you'll encounter a magical world-order revolving around a medieval castle, built to enshrine the infamous spear that pierced the side of Christ, the Spear of Destiny, alleged to bestow world power upon whoever possessed it.
Even as the Fall of Berlin was fast approaching, Himmler was still convinced that nothing could spoil his plans to escape to South America. After all, he still maintained control of the precious Holy Lance. As long as that remained true, he had nothing to worry about. Or so he thought. Because the one thing he could have never anticipated came not in the sinister form of some inhuman dark force summoned from the abyss, but rather it came in the plump, unassuming form of Himmler's personal physician, Dr. Felix Kersten.
In the mind's of Hitler and his staff of generals, Himmler's physician appeared to be no different than all the rest. Hitler had his own Dr. Morrell, so naturally Himmler — the Doppleganger — had to have his own private, round-the-clock "physician." In Kersten, Himmler thought for sure that he had found the greatest physician of all time. In fact, Dr. Felix Kersten was a genuine original — part shaman-healer, part father-confessor, he managed to remain a civilian throughout the war, never relinquishing his Finnish citizenship, even though he had such intimate access to the second most powerful Nazi leader in the land.
And, in spite of every ruthless, conniving attempt made on the part of Himmler's political enemies to remove his doctor from his special position, Kersten finally came to wield to an unprecedented level of influence amongst the highest levels of Nazi power — a power that, even as the Nazi's brutal regime slowly crumbled about them, actually helped Himmler achieve a profound new lease on life.
So, naturally, after everything they had gone through together during the war, Himmler just assumed that nothing would prevent his beloved doctor from accompanying him as he migrated to the sunny shores of South America. There, they would join up with the rest of their Nazi expatriates; there to begin anew the plans for yet another future and glorious return of a Forth Reich, even richer in its spiritual dimensions, all thanks to the infamous Spear, and, of course, to the man Himmler assumed would willingly continue on as his personal physician. Or so he thought.
Himmler's is the story of a peculiar man captured by grandiose fantasies of knightly glory and fame, yet ultimately he was ensnared himself in the ... Web of the Nazis.
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