by Frank Lauria (Author)
After years underground Doctor Owen Orient returns to confront a global conspiracy fueled by two massively powerful occult artifacts: The Spear of Destiny, a mystical weapon of dictators from Charlemagne to Hitler, and the Grimoire of Honorious, the handwritten book of ancient spells compiled by the most evil practitioner of the dark arts in history, Pope Honorious III. Doctor Orient, physician and psychic, and Moe Klein, FBI art expert are drawn into a bloody storm of serial murder and kidnapping that sweeps them from Manhattan to Marrakech -- to a Nazi enclave deep in the Amazon jungle where Josef Mengele, Martin Bormann and Aribert Heim (Doctor Death) continue their inhuman experiments seeking immortality--and the spawning of a New Reich whose temple will be the Vatican itself...
Author Biography
Author Frank Lauria was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has written 22 novels and published numerous poems and magazine articles. After years of travel from North Africa to the Middle East, he resides in San Francisco where he teaches creative writing and performs with his rap band Uncle Frank and the Co-Defendants.