He is one of Umberto Eco's creatures! I just finished Foucault's Pendulum and Dan Brown should be ashamed. If it isn't plagerism, it is darned close. A museum setting at the beginning and ending of the book! A murder in the museum! The old man really being a "bad guy". The female characters playing similar roles. A conspiracy within a conspiracy. It is like he created the "Reader's Digest" version.