*contains SPOILERS*
As soon as I picked it up I realized it was just a Dan Brown ripoff cashing in on the success of Angels & Demons and DaVinci code.
Since I enjoy the thriller genre I decided to read it anyway and see how this writer handled it.

A couple hundred pages in I realized that it was the “pro-Christian response” by the kind of people that thought Dan Brown was anti-Catholic. I groaned, but kept reading…
And then it was revealed the main bad guy was actually the DEVIL and it lost any claim to impartiality or subtleness.

The atheists in the book are potrayed as:
1.) a former believer who gains his faith again
2.) a former Episcopalian… and a completely evil sociopathic sadistic killer who serves the devil
3.) a pompous academic who we’re supposed to be amused gets set up for an arrest – based purely on his researching the darker side of Catholicism.
4.) and I think there was an immoral violence-loving mercenary who works for the devil.
(Note: the PRIEST who was also an ASSASSIN for the church – was of course, portrayed as a good guy)

I finished it just to see how bad and crazy it could get.
And boy did it deliver….. The usual stereotypical scenes of holy objects/places harming the baddies or saving the good (aka Religous) ones.
And an actual occurance to prove the after-life in Heaven exists.
(Though I must give him credit – the author did actually refrain from using the “miracle” cure to solve one of the major problems in the book.)