Best-selling Dan Brown gets hellish time from critics

Writer Dan Brown

By Lorraine Courtney

The latest Dan Brown blockbuster was released this week: cue line-up of detractors rushing to rubbish it, while secretly seething with jealousy at his soaring sales figures.

Brown's newest thriller stars Harvard professor Robert Langdon and this time follows Langdon through Italian cities and some other European locations as he tries to stop the spread of a deadly virus.