At last it's arrived. Dan Brown's new book is a rollicking good story that travels at whip-cracking speed. All the elements of Brown's stories that we have come to know, and mostly like, are there.
History, suspense and this time a real surprise, with a philosophy discussion at the end.
Langdon is a character I'd love to meet at a cocktail party, or morning tea where after 10 minutes I could discreetly excuse myself after 10 minutes, but in a story he is a reliable central figure.
Without telling too much of the story line. It takes place in a twelve hour period, is based in Washington and the Vatican is replaced by Washington and The Church by the Freemasons.
Dan Brown's capacity to invent a story and incorporate history, fact and philosophy has no bounds and he obviously does a lot of research, but how he concocts all of this into the complex stories must surely make him one of the best storytellers in this genre we have read for many a day.
Read it, read it and just enjoy......it's a cracker!
Now I'm off to Google and Wiki some of his sources......
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