03/01/07 -

Well I think I should say I think the Da Vinci Code was a reasonably good thriller, though I'm afraid it was all a tiny bit too obvious for me - but then I've read a lot of thrillers - and many which manage to disguise flying the homicidal monk to Britain a lot better.
I mean it was far more transparent (ie I had the villain tagged quite early) than a lot which don't get all the hype. I think that it was the subject matter that grabbed the headlines. I solved most of the clues quite easily.

What I mean by “disguising flying the homicidal monk to Britain” is that if you manage to pick out that it is totally pointless to do this - then I'm afraid it takes but a few short steps to work out what the point is - then it all breaks open ...........

It did have tremendous pace and excitement though.