Title: Too unbelievable a plot
Product review: One of the pleasures of reading fiction is the ability to suspend reality for awhile. Within that context, however, the plot needs to be believable. For example, in science fiction, the author will lay out most of the 'rules of the universe' early on, for example, 'takes place 10 or 100 or 500 years in the future', 'government is now galaxy-wide', etc., etc. The basic premise in THIS book is that a number of people can keep a deep secret for 2000 years, and that NONE of those folks would be confronted with a motivation to break ranks (successfully, anyway). He also mis-states a fair amount of history: one example, overstating the number of gospels that were floating around before the Council of Nicea.Sadly, I think the real motivation behind this book is simply anti-Christian, and more specifically, Vatican-bashing. I suppose if it's subtle enough, people will get sucked into it, but frankly, the plot was just too stupid for me.
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