This may well be an exciting read (unputdownable, gripping, and so on) and the theory of Opus Dai versus the Merovingian heresy is a fascinating plot generator, but honestly, the elementary mistakes this man makes, with his facts, his ideas, his grammar, his assumption that any of his clues are in the least bit difficult... The leads are cryptographer and an expert in symbolism. The clues are set by a another great expert. I, a non-expert, had a tiresome tendency to work them out roughly a page or so before the leads did. Gosh but I thought they were thick by the end of it. And his view of the Merovingian heresy is fairy-tale simplistic to an extreme. Alas this book is good enough to excite some people to whom all this is new into thinking they've stumbled accross a great truth. Alas this book is not good enough to impress those of us with rudimentary knowledge of any of the subjects he plays with.

And the poetry is abysmal.

Read as a great thriller. Do not, I beg you, read this as a guide to anything deep or fundamental about the history of the Church.

RELEASE NOTES:

Donated to charity shop.