For the Record - Robert Harris, Dan Brown and Conspiracy
Nearly all the books below are so light a read that they could be blown away with just a breath of desert wind. The exception is Robert Harris' Fatherland which is very good indeed. I have added a review of his well above average historical crime drama Pompeii but the bulk of these books are conspiracy thrillers that fed simultaneously off post-9/11 paranoia about the Middle East or the barely taboo chance to disrespect organised religion and/or an interest in cashing in on the Da Vinci Code (published in 2003). Two of Dan Brown's own follow-up books are included below. Fatherland (1991) Robert Harris Deservedly a thriller classic which postulates an alternative universe in which the Nazis won. Almost certainly in any 'Top 100' thriller list, somewhere alongside Len Deighton's much earlier SS-GB. Knights of the Blood (Knights of the Blood, #1) (1993) Scott MacMillan and Katherine Kurtz This is cliched - Nazi vampires meet quasi-Templar vampires