http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/17/pf-1537258.html
[The Toronto Sun] April 17, 2006--As Dan Brown writes in The Da Vinci Code, "Everyone loves a conspiracy."
So here they are -- the supposed secrets nobody wants you to know, least of all the Christian church. Jesus Christ never died on the cross. No, he retired to Egypt. Or was it France? He sired a royal bloodline with wife Mary Magdalene.
Can this all be true? No, say all serious historians who deal with the first century.
But that doesn't matter in the world of publishing. The staggering success of The Da Vinci Code -- 40 million hardcover copies in print worldwide plus another 6 million in paperback -- has given a boost to books marketed as both nonfiction and fiction that play on the idea that great mysteries envelop the "greatest story ever told."
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