Beautifully Illustrated and meticulously researched, this book not only answers many of the questions you may have been left pondering when you reached the last page of "The DaVinci Code", it also takes an in-depth look at the often murky world of power and politics behind the facade of the Vatican.
I can't tell who this book is for. It follows some formatting of a history textbook as if for children but assumes the reader already knows vast amounts about a very broad range of topics. The images are awful and most often irrelevant to the point of their presence being confusing. it seems very odd to be basing the book on Dan Brown's (this isn't the first time I've read a book that turns out to be a response to the fiction in the fiction book) but then keep the juicier sections, like Opus Dei, short?