Clearly the book invites comparisons with [[Dan Brown]]'s work, but your reviewer confesses to not having read ''The Da Vinci Code'' so is unable to comment.
On the other hand - the little known work [[''Montaillou]]'', by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, is worth reading if you're intrigued by any of the ideas raised by the story.
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