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A Leap of Faith Many people consider organized religion to be a leap of faith. This book is a larger leap fo faith. The authors run into questionable material through out their research, and each time they lean to the side that supports their research. In defense, if this was not doen the book would be over in two chapters, so in the interest of the book, they MUST assume, or take the leap of faith, that the evidense is supporting the cause they are researching. If you read this, you must read it a couple of times to keep it all straight. A dictionary may not be a bad idea as well as a french to english dictionary. The authors do not give the english translatoin of many of the french or ancient words int he book, so a lay person could get confused or lost in the lesson. As for the history in the book. There are several historical events brought up, in the book, that most of us may have never heard of. There were even dynasties I don't remember learning of in history classes. From that stand point, I applaud the book. From a factual bassis of connecting certian families and bloodlines, I am not willing to make the leap of faith the authors are. If just one of these is false then entire story is done. It would appear that each supposition is dependant on the previous. I have read "The Da Vinci Code", and I can see where Dan Brown got good deal of his story line and character's from. I cannot, however, see HGHB as a rok of non-fiction. The authors have a substantial amount of hostorical evidence, but much of it is conencted through questionable, at best, links. It is a good read if you want to catch up on religious history though.