I feel like Dan Brown's stuff is overrated, but not in a bad sense. The hook of the books is very good, while the rest of it is standard "adventuring". So if yo

I feel like Dan Brown's stuff is overrated, but not in a bad sense. The hook of the books is very good, while the rest of it is standard "adventuring". So if you expect more than standard adventuring, you're gonna be left disappointed (I include very average prose in this). Someone compared them to Cussler's work in this thread and I agree, the difference between the two is that Cussler never made the hook "cool enough" on the level of Brown.