Could there actually be an unbreakable code that would cripple U.S. intelligence, as in Digital Fortress? How much truth lies in The Da Vinci Code's history-altering propositions that have so angered the Vatican? Are the Illuminati from Angels and Demons really alive and well?

The answers are here, covering every picture, place, proper name, and historical event through all of Brown's books, explaining what's absolutely true, possible, improbable, or completely fictitious. One of Dan Brown's greatest accomplishments as a writer is his uncanny ability to blur the line between fact and fiction. Now, with The Unauthorized Dan Brown Companion, readers will at last have all of the information to distinguish for themselves between the inventions of a master storyteller and the historical revelations of a first-rate investigator.

CHAPTER ONE

 Dan Brown--The Man and His Fiction

CHAPTER TWO

 Conspiracy Theories--A Look at Dan Brown

 and His Debunkers

CHAPTER THREE

 Dan Brown and Technology: Fabulous Inventions—

 Do They or Don't They Exist in the Real World?

CHAPTER FOUR

 Traveling with Dan Brown—A Guide to Some

 of the Real Locations and Attractions Seen

 by His Characters

CHAPTER FIVE

 From Indiana Jones to Robert Langdon—

 Great Academic Heroes in Fact and in Fiction

THE DAN BROWN CONCORDANCE

 An A-to-Z Look at the World of Dan Brown's Novels

 Assembled and Written by Pare McCutcheon

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