![]() To be precise: this book has sold more than eighty million copies worldwide-and you just know that more people than that have read it. Interwoven through the book are "facts" about secret societies, "clues" hidden in masterpieces that we're all familiar with, and "evidence" that the Catholic Church is involved in a massive cover-up of epic proportions… and people ate. They're on the run from the cops and unseen forces that are after what they know, in a race to find evidence that the Holy Grail isn't actually a cup, but a cache of evidence that Mary Magdalene had a child by Jesus Christ. We may sound like we're being snarky (us? snarky? never!), but the addition of hotly-debated Christian conspiracy theories to a Euro heist caper turned out to be as successful as the addition of peanut butter to chocolate.Īnd it elevated the name of Dan Brown from just being a dude with perhaps the most average-sounding Anglo name in America (right up there with John Smith) to international literary superstardom.īrown wove a tale about Robert Langdon, a renowned symbologist (we guess they can be renowned…in certain circles) who ends up on a quest for the Holy Grail with Sophie Neveu, cryptologist and estranged granddaughter of the guy who gets murdered in the prologue. Then you obviously weren't looking for a beach read in 2003, when The Da Vinci Code arrived on the scene, climbed to the tippy top of the New York Times Bestseller list and proceeded to stay there for two whole years. ![]() You know when you read a bestseller and think, "Hey, this thriller is awesome with all its intrigue and car chases and murders, but what it really needs is some theological lectures and art history thrown in?" ![]()
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