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In his new novel, the famous Ukrainian writer Serhiy Baturyn offers his own answer to one of the most mysterious questions in biblical history: who was the centurion who struck the last blow to the crucified Jesus, and why most Christian churches still consider this warrior a saint and his spear a miraculous relic. The evangelist John mentions him without naming him, the evangelist Mark calls him "the son of God," and only in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus is the Roman's real name, Longinus, mentioned for the first time.

The author traces the historical path of the Spear of Destiny, as Longinus' spear was called in the Middle Ages, up to the days when the Nazi bonzes hunted for this relic in the hope that its magical power would ensure Germany's invincibility on the battlefield. And, strangely enough, on this whimsical path, the reader will meet the hero of Serhiy Baturyn's previous novel Clavus Domini, a man known to his contemporaries as "the robber Barabbas."