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Ni hao, Frui, and good luck with your hunt for a Dan Brown replacement. With Dan Brown one has to not only willingly suspend disbelief, to use the Coleridge phrase, but willingly suspend interest in characterization and description and historical accuracy and probably more. But there's nothing wrong with that. I've read everything the man has written because I think his strengths--premise, story, suspense, pacing, plot twists--are impressive and damn entertaining. I can and do read Cormac McCarthy and Raymond Chandler and many other elitist-approved authors old and new whenever I'm in a different kind of mood, and it sounds as though that's what you do too. (I have to think the elitists suffer from some kind of deficit not to be able to grasp Brown's incredibly broad appeal.)
I'm having a hard time thinking of a similar author though to replace Brown. The best I can do is Michael Crichton, who wrote pacy, cerebral thrill rides, mostly science thrillers. His early stuff is mostly forgotten but there are some early gems, and Jurassic Park is his best, a classic of its kind. I agree with the verdict here on Folsom's The Day After Tomorrow. A Brown fan would likely enjoy that one. There are a few Koontz novels I think you would enjoy, especially Velocity.
Eric Christopherson
Indie author of "Crack-Up"
Available on Kindle
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