“Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.” 2. Deception Point, 2001 “Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah,” Publishers Weekly writes. With help from a French cryptographer, Sophie Neveau, who takes his side, he manages to escape and together they embark on a quest to find the real killer. This thriller - later auctioned into a multi-million-dollar Hollywood film treatment - focuses on Robert Langdon, a Harvard University professor of symbology, who is in Paris on a speaking engagement when he is woken in the middle of the night by the French police and implicated in the murder of the Louvre Museum curator. The Da Vinci Code, 2003ĭescribed by The Guardian as “ludicrous but gripping”, Brown’s Magnum Opus The Da Vinci Code needs little introduction. Here are his seven major novels ranked from best to worst: 1. American thriller novelist Dan Brown turns 54 today.Īlthough not always finding favour with critics, his books have sold hundreds of millions of copies and Hollywood adaptations have been made of his works.
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