Dan Brown sequel generator

[Caliga]

I always wondered about the "symbology" vs. semiotics thing, too... especially weird since Dan Brown has clearly read Umberto Eco. 

Maybe he thinks his target audience is too stupid to understand what "semiotics" means and didn't want to have to explain it repeatedly at book signings.

[The Minsky Moment]

Maybe he thinks his target audience is too stupid to understand what "semiotics" means and didn't want to have to explain it repeatedly at book signings.

Yeah I think that is exactly it - that and thinking ahead to pitching the story to Hollywood.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

A mysterious cipher whose key is somewhere in Buenos Aires.
A nefarious cult determined to protect it.
A desperate race to uncover the Mormon Church's darkest secret.

The Hallowed Cipher

When world-famous Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Colon Theatre to analyze a mysterious rune—imprinted on a gold ring lying next to the disfigured form of the head docent—he discovers evidence of the unthinkable: the resurgence of the ancient cult of the Lucinistas, a secret branch of the Mormon Church that has surfaced from the shadows to carry out its legendary vendetta against its mortal enemy, the Vatican.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed when a messenger from the Lucinistas appears at the Obelisk in Plaza de la Republica to deliver a macabre ultimatum: Turn over the archbishop, or one cherub will disappear from the Sistine Chapel every day. As the city braces for disaster, Langdon joins forces with the voluptuous and charming daughter of the murdered docent in a desperate bid to crack the code that will reveal the cult's secret plan.

Embarking on a frantic hunt, Langdon and his companion follow a 800-year-old trail through Buenos Aires's most sacred churches and historic monuments, pursued by a mustachioed assassin the cult has sent to thwart them. What they discover threatens to expose a conspiracy that goes all the way back to Joseph Smith and the very founding of the Mormon Church.