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The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel by Steve Berry is a historical conspiracy novel centered around the Piri Reis map; a group of mythical beings, The Watchers; the disappearance of a top secret Navy submarine and a conspiracy stretching from Charlemagne's court to Hitler's bunker and into the highest levels of modern American government.

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Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin, originally released in 1992 under the title Wolfman, is the third in Rankin's Inspector Rebus series. Rebus is a Scottish police inspector called to London to help track down a serial killer called the Wolfman because of his habit of biting his victims. The story has the predictable coflict between the out of town expert and the locals, though it seems a bit unusual having the expert in coming in from the backwaters to the capital instead of the other way around.

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Steve Berry has written several books in the same general vein as The Da Vinci Code, thrillers with references to real world art, architecture and history woven around the shadowy semihistory of conspiracy theories. The Third Secret is a bit different. Rather than the more common conspiracies involving Masons, Templars or the Illuminati, Berry posits a conspiracy in the Roman Catholic Church to cover up a part of the Third Secret of Fatima. Fans of the DaVinci Code may appreciate the suspense and style of writing, but don't hold your breath for any well researched insights into historical/religious events. The doctrinal plot premise is created out of whole cloth. (Read after the cut if you need to know more, but be aware it's a plot spoiler.)

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