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Harris Tweed Conspiracy? Why was our hero, and "Harvard symbologist" Robert Langdon's Harris Tweed coat mentioned many times? So much so that I was expecting it to be used to pull him out of another cliffhanger. But given Brown's use of symbolism to make the most tenuous connections, perhaps this is a clue that Langdon is part of the Templar-Masonic-Illuminati-Satanist conspiracy. For inside each Harris Tweed coat is the symbol of an orb topped with a Maltese cross. Or perhaps it reveals him as a amember of a secret Christian organization? It could go either way, just as the all-seeing eye and the pyramid have been Christian as well as Masonic symbols. I did find it a thriller and page turner, but at first felt Brown was trying too hard to impress us with his knowledge, mixed with his imagination. He slipped at least once - a glaring anachronism with a paragraph telling us that early Christianity adopted elements from the Aztecs. I enjoyed the movie "National Treasure", and enjoyed "The Amber Room". I have not yet read the Da Vinci code, but felt a touch of superiority in the author's tone in this book.