Comments on Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is no doubt a good book giving much information about the Priory of Sion, Vatican, and Opus Dei etc. It has raving reviews from News Papers. But I have not been able to digest the fact how anyone can keep preaching, informing like Robert Langdon even while running for life. It could be possible in a class room but not in a taxi or train while your life is in danger.
To give it the shape of a mystery novel the author has introduced a number of characters and incidents that do not fit in properly. For example a visit to the Swiss bank, revelation that he was also a member of the Priory of Sion, Mr.Teabing leading a double life.
Similarly Introduction of the character Silas and his role is also needless except that through him the author has given us a picture of some of the unethical violent practices of the disciples of Priests in the Vatican. Those who have read the James Bond novel “From Russia with love” by Ian Fleming may recollect a similar ruthless character that had urge to kill on the full moon night and was brainwashed to kill James Bond only.
I would like to draw the attention of readers about another parallel novel “The Prize” by Irwin Wallace in which he has given lot of information about the Nobel Prize and simultaneously running another mystery involving kidnapping of the Prize winning Scientist by East German spies.
In my view it should have been a narrative on the lines of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos rather than a mystery novel