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Dan Brown
www.danbrown.com
Official website of the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, with a biography and an author FAQ.
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
http://en.wikipedia.org
Online encyclopaedia, cross-referencing to information on The Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion and Mary Magdalene.
Opus Dei
www.opusdei.org
Website of the group that is officially part of the Catholic Church.
Templar History
www.templarhistory.com
This site seems to have something for everyone, including an authentic history of the order and a mysteries and myths section. For more speculative stuff, and should you want to know whether the order still exists, there is a legacy section.
The
Da Vinci Code: The illustrated edition by Dan Brown (Bantam Press,
2004)
Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries
the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating
material culled from 2000 years of Western history. This edition has photographs
and drawings.
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Da Vinci Code Decoded by Martin Lunn (The Disinformation Company, 2004)
An expert historian reveals the truth behind Brown's research. Non-dogmatic
and not out to discredit Brown's The Da Vinci Code for religious motives,
Lunn delivers a reader's guide to this controversial novel.
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The
Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
and Henry Lincoln (Arrow, 2004)
The authors spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy
Grail; looking into the secretive history of early France. What they found
is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like
a mystery novel.
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The
Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code by Sharan Newman (Berkley
Books, 2005)
Written by an acclaimed medievalist and historian who takes an objective,
history-based approach to this literary phenomenon and the questions it
has raised.
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Produced to accompany The Real Da Vinci Code, a Wildfire Television production for Channel 4, first shown in February 2005.
Managing editor: Katie Streten
Project manager: Red Cinnamon
Design: 72 dots
Picture editor/illustrator: Nick Pearson
Writer: Bart James
Editor: Andy Reynolds
Resources: Nicole Carman
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