To a world desperate for heroes, I offer...

... the courageous Dan Brown:

Hats off to Brown. For any writer, it would be a frightening prospect asked to come up with a book to match probably the biggset surprise monster hit in publishing history. The temptation to quit while he was ahead and never try and match 'The Da Vinci Code' must have been enormous, but I admire his courage at having a crack at it.

Neill Denny (thebookseller.com/blogs)

The psychologist Erich Fromm once wrote, "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." Understood in the right (or, better, wrong) way, that seems to fit here.

Comments

[Matthew]

The real puzzle here is the fact that A&D was written BEFORE DVC. So how Denny see this as a follow-up is confusing.

[Carl E. Olson]

Matthew: My fault; I should have made it clear that the quote was about Brown's upcoming, unpublished book, The Lost Symbol (September 2009). Soon we shall know the fruits of Brown's courageous efforts!

[Charles E Flynn]

The film of "Angels & Demons" treats the events described in the novel as a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_&_Demons_(film)