The Last Assassin (1984)
The Seventh Sanctuary (1987)
The Ninth Buddha (1988)
Brotherhood of the Tomb (1989)
Night of the Seventh Darkness (1991)
The Name of the Beast (1992)
The Judas Testament (1994)
Day of Wrath (Night of the Apocalypse) (1995)
The Final Judgement (1996)
K (1997)
Incarnation (1998)
The Jaguar Mask (2000)
Midnight Comes at Noon (2001)
Maroc (2002)
The Sword (2007)
This is the first 'Easterman' novel since Maroc in 2002.
Jack Goodrich is an English professor working in Cairo where he lives with his wife and young daughter. One day he gets a call from friend who shows him an old sword and accompanying letter. The belief is that the sword belonged to the Prophet Muhammad. Goodrich is convinced and takes the sword away for further study.
Meanwhile a man known as "The Egyptian" is looking for the sword. He believes that with the sword in his possession he will have the influence to attack Europe and America. Along the way he has obtained a nuclear weapon which he fully intends to use.
The next day Jack's wife and daughter are killed violently while visiting his friend. He goes back to Scotland where he stays in seclusion until he gets surprising news about his family. An assassin is not far behind and he’s soon on the run back to Cairo where he will try to stop the people behind the violence
This book marks a welcome return for Daniel Easterman on the bookshelves. It's up to his usual high standard for characterisation, history and fanatical violence. Its a bit scary that the real world has caught up to the fanaticism that he has been describing since the 1980s. The motivation of the characters does not seem at all far-fetched.
The Spear of Destiny (2009)
I recently read Easterman's new novel The Spear of Destiny and I enjoyed it very much. The book begins with a family gathering at Christmas. Having read Easterman's previous novels I was sure that it would soon descend into bloodshed. Right enough it’s not long before elderly Gerald Usherwood has been tortured and killed.
His grandson Ethan Usherwood investigates and discovers that Gerald and the men under his command discovered something strange in the deserts of North Africa in 1942. A flashback sequence tells us what happened when they find a lost oasis and an ancient church containing both Hebrew and early Christian symbols.
Inside the church they find tombs and what appear to be relics of Christ, including a Roman lance - the so called Spear of Destiny. Since the war Gerald and his mean have been guarding the secret of what they found.
The killers return to the house and leave Ethan for dead and abduct his niece. They also leave evidence that suggests that Ethan was responsible for killing his niece and disposing of her body. He is forced to go on the run to Europe to rescue his niece.
It transpires that neo-Nazi wants to get his hands on the relics and the location of the ancient church. He had his own delusions of power and has a need for the contents of the tombs. The chase leads across Romania and eventually back to the North African desert.
This was another very entertaining thriller from Easterman and was reminiscent of his earlier books such as The Seventh Sanctuary, albeit considerably shorter.