There’s a winning innocence to Brown’s work, especially as rather than just produce a chase thriller with added sudoku, he is determined to take on the most fundamental issues of human existence.” 4. “And the longer he keeps earnestly plugging away, the more the reader warms to him.
The book is fun in its galumphing way,” the paper says. And you know what? It doesn’t really matter at all. “Complaining that Brown can’t write is like complaining that crisps are crunchy. The Guardian says that although Brown’s vocabulary in the novel is somewhat limited, this should not detract from the thrill of the read.
Origin, 2017Ī reliably Brown-esque addition to the Langdon series, Origin is the author’s most recent outing, having hit shelves in late 2017 to warm reviews. “He's also done his research, folding in sophisticated scientific and military details that make his plot far more fulfilling than the norm.” 3. “It's an excellent thriller - a big yet believable story unfolding at breakneck pace, with convincing settings and just the right blend of likable and hateful characters. “Brown moves into new territory with his latest,” Publishers Weekly said at the time. On the eve of a US presidential election, an incredible discovery looks set to change the entire political landscape as Nasa finds an enormous meteorite buried in the Milne glacier, high in the Arctic, containing fossils - proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. This 2001 non-Langdon novel is one of Brown’s finest, breaking new ground and moving out of his comfort zone. “Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.” 2. Deception Point, 2001 “Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah,” Publishers Weekly writes. With help from a French cryptographer, Sophie Neveau, who takes his side, he manages to escape and together they embark on a quest to find the real killer. This thriller - later auctioned into a multi-million-dollar Hollywood film treatment - focuses on Robert Langdon, a Harvard University professor of symbology, who is in Paris on a speaking engagement when he is woken in the middle of the night by the French police and implicated in the murder of the Louvre Museum curator. The Da Vinci Code, 2003ĭescribed by The Guardian as “ludicrous but gripping”, Brown’s Magnum Opus The Da Vinci Code needs little introduction. Here are his seven major novels ranked from best to worst: 1. American thriller novelist Dan Brown turns 54 today.Īlthough not always finding favour with critics, his books have sold hundreds of millions of copies and Hollywood adaptations have been made of his works.
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