Title: Drivel, pure drivel
Product review: Drivel, pure drivel. Here's a tip, if you are setting out to write a fast paced caper where the charcters must solve coded messages to advance the story, the "codes" should be more complex than those found in the "jumble" in the newspaper or "mirror writing" used in my son's weekly reader. I solved the three main codes in less than a minute each, but our expert cryptologist and religious symbolist aggonized over them for several pages. Also, the author is oblivious to the facts and folklore that provide the backdrop of his book. As just one example, the Holy Grail derived from an earlier pagan legend about a magic cauldron, not the idea suggested by the author. This is the worst book I have read in ages. If you want a good novel about the theft of a sacred relic and the follower's pursuant to retrieve the relic, try Wilkie Collin's "The Moonstone"
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