There has always been a cloak of mystery over the Knights Templar and, what are supposed to be their modern-day successors, the Freemasons.The American author Dan Brown, best known for his book "The Da Vinci Code", has just written a book, "The Lost Symbol", which is doing for the Freemasons what its predecessor, "The Da Vinci Code", did for the Catholic Church's Opus Dei — showering new fame, and new fictions, on an age-old brotherhood which has been accused of everything from conspiring with extraterrestrials to practicing sexual deviancy to engaging in occult rituals to running the world — or trying to end it.
I've bought this book as bedtime reading during my forthcoming travels in Indonesia.
