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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODE

A CHALLENGING RESPONSE TO THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL

"A well written and thorough examination...everyone confused by Dan Brown's novel should read this book!" - Tim LaHaye

All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate...

 With these startling words, Dan Brown's mega-selling thriller  - The Da Vinci Code - invites you into his own world of intrigue and history. Bound in over 400 pages of thrilling nail biting account,  Brown invites the reader into the murky underpinnings of sensationalism and pseudo-historical facts. 

Award winning investigative journalist Richard Abanes attempts, in this book, to break apart the logical fallacies which surround Dan Brown's understanding of facts and history. 

  The Code: Jesus was married to Mary Magdeline, whom he named leader of the church before his death

  The Truth: This fantasy has no historical support, even from the gnostic gospels mentioned in the book, let alone from the historical data. 

  The Code: Since the year 1099, a supersecret society called "The Priory of Sion" has preserved knowledge of Jesus and Mary's descendants. 

  The Truth: Today's "Priory of Sion" was founded in the early 1960s by a French con-man who falsified documents to support the story of Jesus "bloodline". 

  The Code: As a "Priory" leader and pagan goddess worshipper, Leonardo Da Vinci coded secret knowledge about Jesus and Mary into his paintings. 

  The Truth: Da Vinci had no known ties to any secret societies. Any obscure images in his paintings likely reflect his personal creativity. 

  Probing, factual and revealing, The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code gives you the straightforward information you need to dig through the fiction and unearth the facts. Many of the "facts" in Dan Brown's work of fiction is merely just that - fiction. Even secular historians and scholars would decry such a theory as gobbledygook.