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Dan Brown meets Indiana Jones and they flunk history 101
After slogging through 95% of this book I finally realized it was an allegory! but until then I was stewing over the gross historical inaccuracy upon which the whole book was based,namely that an ancient ossuary had been dug up in the Egyptian desert, looted fron the Cairo Museum by Erwin Rommel and taken to Germany where it was rescued by one of the American monuments men. The fact that Rommel never looted any art treasures or never got within 300 miles of Cairo was just a casualty of research made even worse by the fact that the plot could have been easily tweaked to satisfy a stickler like me. The author finally settles into a diatribe about the evil in the world. Reading this like a novel is a mistake. Read it like a sophomore term paper in philosophy 101 and you can enjoy it a bit.
