Dan Burstein's Secrets of the Code is a sweeping tour, guided by renowned experts, that will help you separate truth from fiction, satisfy your curiosity and engage your imagination with well-researched proof of certain facts. It is the ultimate guidebook for exploring The Da Vinci Code phenomenon and the perfect starting point for finding your own answers. Order now on Amazon. (Also available in paperback)

• New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller

• Worldwide bestseller; 28 foreign editions

• More than 3 million copies of the “Secrets” books in print

• Basis for feature documentary and special edition of US News & World Report

About the Book



Every once in a while a cultural phenomenon hits like a firestorm, taps our collective curiosity and starts a public debate. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has accomplished that with brilliance. If you’re like millions of readers, you devoured The Da Vinci Code and closed the book with a spinning head full of questions. Was Mary Magdalene really the wife ofJesus? Did Leonardo actually hide this information in his masterpiece The Last Supper? And what’s the real story behind all those secret societies with their famous members and sacred sex rites?


Dan Burstein—renowned author, successful businessman and armchair scholar—was left with the same burning desire for answers after reading The Da Vinci Code. So he hit the books, tapped his network and, with his writing and business partner Arne de Keijzer, assembled an all-star cast which contributed its expertise to Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code. It’s the most authoritative guidebook to The Da Vinci Code available as well as a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly and worldwide bestseller.


The intent of Secrets of the Code is to give readers a wide range of perspectives, from original sources, about the fascinating ideas and issues presented in The Da Vinci Code—Mary Magdalene and her relationship to Jesus, the little-known story of Christianity’s early development, the mystery of signs and symbols, the occult, Leonardo da Vinci, Opus Dei, the Holy Grail, Gnosticism, etc.—and thereby help satisfy the curiosity people experience after reading The Da Vinci Code.

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Before there was The Da Vinci Code, there was Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons. Here, too, the novelist took on the “facts” of Western history – this time “exposing” the secret history of the Vatican, the Illuminati, the suppression of Galileo’s most secret manuscripts, and much more. And it, too, left readers wondering what to make of it all. Order now on Amazon.com. (Also available in paperback, DVD)






Secrets of the Widow’s Son, is an unprecedented book concept: Relying on extensive investigative reporting and intellectual sleuthing, it is an explorer’s field guide to understanding the main themes, ideas, symbols, and historical issues that author Dan Brown will likely utilize in The Solomon Key—many months before this much-awaited sequel to The Da Vinci Code is even published. Order now on Amazon.com.






Continuing in the tradition of the blockbusting New York Times bestseller Secrets of the Code, the latest book from the “Secrets” team, Secrets of Mary Magdalene: The Unfolding Story of History’s Most Misunderstood Woman, brings together world class experts such as Elaine Pagels, Susan Haskins, Margaret Starbird, and more. Order now on Amazon.com.