The only reason I have started to read "Angels and Demons" and "The DaVinci Code" was that I found out that the catholic church has put the books "on the idex" - that means that the church does not want its members to read the books. Wow! A forbiden book. Let us find out why ...
I know next to nothing about the art and I am not vere well versed in the catholic church history, so I have read the books. There are some details that might spoil the story for a reader that is less tolarant than myself, but ... I have definitely read worse books. You have to take fiction books with a grain of salt anyway.
than I have made a mistake by starting to read The Digital Fortress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress.
Holy $DEITY!
Such a piece of total, utter, absolute, mind-boggling, ULTIMATE technical illiteracy!
If you know something - anything - about cryptography, computers, or technics in general, DO NOT READ THE BOOK.
And this is not just about lots and lots and lots (all of them!) of small details that author obviously does not understand at all. The base of the plot itself - that you can somehow "poison" the chipher breaking supercomputer and to destroy it *physically* just by feeding it a specially crafted "bad" input data.
I have totally lost any respect for anything Mr. Brown might ever write again.