Title: A True Dud
Review: This was dreadful fiction, a weak mystery, a boring thriller. There's no sense of the period; the characterizations are paper-thin; the pacing is poor. And then central concept is ludicrous: Leonardo hides a huge secret in The Last Supper and then brags about it to his assistant? I had to re-read that chapter to figure out what the author was up to, though perhaps some of the book's problems are the fault of the translation because there's much too much bad English here. More annoying still, there's a major clue which is easy to figure out, if you're moderately literate, many chapters before the solution is presented. This feels like a Da Vinci Code knock-off and that book has much more brio and audacity, which means that despite its flaws, it's page-turning fun. I turned these pages, yes, but mostly out of morbid curiosity--could it really be this bad? Save your money!
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