Those chain stores have all but disappeared, damaged by the GFC but ultimately defeated by Amazon. Struggling independent book stores, where the true book lovers browse, certainly did not display Dan Brown prominently and were not proud to stock him at all though they could not afford not to. And they stocked the Dan Brown quartet – The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point – in stacked piles and full shelves. Those were also the days of large bookseller chains whose mid-city stores were as large as some department stores.
Think back if you can to those heady days of 2003 when everyone who was talking about books was talking about The Da Vinci Code, both in enthusiastic praise and vitriolic frustration. However, while it is not the worst pop-fiction you will read, it is certainly not among the best.
At the peak of Dan Brown’s popularity, Deception Point was probably the novel of his that intrigued me the most, even more than The Da Vinci Code.
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