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A thriller about secret societies Dan Brown's book about Robert Langdon, scholar "and international action hero", is entertaining, fast paced and abounds with intrigue and secret societies and junk science. While I enjoyed the book and found it hard to put down, my biggest problem with Mr. Brown is his gift to take those things we see every day and somehow transform them into something sinister and mysterious filled with meaning. Mr. Brown takes liberties with some many things, from science to real organizations such as CERN and the Catholic Church that I find it troubling that the public may misinterpret the fictional books to be nonfiction and start looking for the next secret organization ready to take over the world. In fact you can visit Professor Robert Langdon's homepage at www. robertlangdon.com. That being said and suspending disbelief, for a while, this book weaves a good yarn, which will make you shut off the television, get your favorite slippers and settle in. The story is set in Switzerland and Italy and, like Da Vinci Code, takes you on a tour of Rome that makes you want to hire Dan Brown as your next tour guide. The book has the usual twists and turns but unlike the DaVinci Code, the pacing is faster, the puzzles less obtuse, and the action is more akin to a Clive Cussler novel with some pretty unbelievable action sequences. After reading this book I am glad I did not enter the fast paced lifestyle of Religious Symbology like Professor Langdon or else I would be dead by now. My advice is if you like Ludlum, Cussler and yarns about secret societies and ancient mysteries, get yourself a chair by a fire and read this book. And do it before reading the DaVinci Code. After all, how many authors can lay claim to the fact that the inventor of the World Wide Web, CERN, has devoted a page to discussing their novel.