and the novel has many like that. Illuminati written upside down, etc. It's a page turner and an interesting story, and Dan did research. However that doesn't make him a great or even a good writer. I liked the book on one level but hated his writing. I mean at one point early on, when Langon hears a fact about physics that seemed irrelevant to the story at hand, Brown actually writes: "Little did Langon realize that this piece of knowledge would save his life less than 24 hours ater in a country hundreds of miles away."
It's one thing to foreshadow, writers do it all the time, but it is pathetic that writers hlike Brown have to tell the reader that they are doing it. The tactic is simply to get people to turn the pages to keep looking for it. i think its a shameful tactic that cedes to the lowest common denominator.
