1. The Cumbrous door blocking their way was a thick wall of riveted iron." - 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown

2. Dan Brown also claims that the "The Star of David" is engraved on the chapel floor but none of the old engravings of the chapel show it to exist.

3. Raymond Khoury's 2005 debut may seem a shameless knockoff of The Da Vinci Code, but its success proves that being the poor man's Dan Brown is enough to make Khoury a very rich man indeed.

4. Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars