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7 unusual facts about Dan Brown


Christopher L. Hodapp

It also contains an extensive guide to Masonic landmarks in Washington D.C. In 2007, in collaboration with Alice Von Kannon, he wrote The Templar Code For Dummies, a guide to the medieval Knights Templar, the subsequent mysteries and myths that have surrounded them, and their connections with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

Crime in the Philippines

In Dan Brown's Inferno (2013), Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is described as a poverty-stricken area with a "horrifying sex trade".

Erwin Lutzer

More recently, Lutzer’s book critiquing Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, entitled The Da Vinci Deception, was featured on national broadcasts in both secular and Christian markets.

Families First

In November 2003, bestselling author Dan Brown promoted the organization by arranging a booksigning.

Francis Kodankandath

This was misinterpreted by author Dan Brown in his book Da Vinci Code as he put forth the notion of a lady in the painting.

Gravity boots

Today, gravity boots are used by the U.S. Army and have experienced a surge in popularity in 2006 with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown praising them as well.

La Pyramide Inversée

The Inverted Pyramid figures prominently on the concluding pages of Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code.


Dreadnaught USA

In 2005, the group began a prominent stint as house band for the New Hampshire Public Radio series Writers On A New England Stage at the Music Hall in Portsmouth NH, where it has performed with Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Alan Alda, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Elmore Leonard, Anita Diamant, and Mitch Albom.

I Write Like

Other bloggers, including author Teresa Nielsen Hayden, have expressed anger and frustration to find that the website has compared their writings to that by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

One Franklin Square

One Franklin Square is an important setting in the final act of the 2009 Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol.

Red Cell

The novelists Brad Meltzer, Dan Brown and Brad Thor were recruited to write terror plots as part of the US Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell program.

The Templar Revelation

Seven years after this book was published, some of the ideas presented in this and other similar books, have become central to the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.


see also

Basilica Cistern

The cistern with its inverted Medusa pillar was used prominently in the climax of the new Dan Brown novel Inferno featuring Robert Langdon, where the antagonist planned to make his attack.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

Rennes-les-Bains

Rennes-les-Bains is known for another reason, however: it is mentioned numerous times in many books about Rennes-le-Chateau, famous now also because of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.