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Review title: A Da Vinci-wannabe?
Product review: I picked this up after reading Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code", and thought this book would be in the same vein. While it does cover a Vatican cover-up of significant proportions, the execution of the book was poor, at best. Rather than turning pages, I found that I had to force myself to continue reading.The characters seem either cardboard or unlikely. For instance, a cop who suddenly turns himself into a professor of philosophy/religion. The sudden re-emergence of the KGB (which I thought died out when the Soviet Union dissolved, and was now called something like the CIS...?) A priest with shrapnel in his brain, who understandably does not wish to make any sudden moves who rides bumpy snowmobiles, springs to his feet, drops to the floor, etc, etc. Also a mystery "American" whose identity is painfully obvious almost right from the start.I cannot honestly say that I would recommend this book, and will probably shy away from this author's work.
