After two novels were written about the Catholic Church and the Opus Dei movement, American novelist Dan Brown takes a break from stirring controversy in the direction of one religion. In his 2009 effort, complete with the Brown-ian literary formula, The Lost Symbol targets the Freemasons.
The dawn of the year 2010 brought on The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova’s follow-up project to her 2005 debut, The Historian. Echoing the previous formula of simultaneously elaborating on two stories that occur on two separate blocks of time, Kostova shifts her focus from undead legends to the immortality of art.