The Keep

This is the best book I read in 2007, and one of my favourites of all time. I saw the movie in the 80's - loved the movie - but the book gives more details, builts up really slow, never boring, always makes you wonder what will happen next. Not only a very good story, but also very good characters: Nazis, Germans and Jews. If you wonder what happens when a Jew holds a silver cross to fend off evil: read the book.