Whoever did the research (author, wife, editor, pet gerbil) is not my point. The book seems to have gone to some lengths to be reasonably accurate in art and apocryphal religious history. And the connections made are somewhat interesting I suppose if you’re into conspiracy theories and the Mason/Knights Templar genre. He (or his wife) seems to have read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, or at least lifted some ideas from it. But that’s where any value, in my opinion, stops.

The writing is truly atrocious. It was impossible for me to suspend enough disbelief to get through it – even as a potboiler. It was as if the author was constantly looking over my shoulder saying, “See how very clever I am!”

If this is the best he has to offer, I would certainly stay away from his other titles.