Perhaps he can do such a study on the new Tom Clancy novel being published in 2 or 3 weeks. It's similar... it's a story of fictional characters with a backdrop of present day locations, technology, and events! Amazing... And the big thing is, being fiction, it's entertainment, but not reality.
It is entertainment of the sort that aims to defame. As if someone, fie hundred years from now, set out to discredit George Washington by asserting that he was the illegitimate son of George II and asserted that Alexander Hamilton was his paramour.
Well, the problem is that this work of "fiction" makes claims to certain facts...
As far as I know, Tom Clancy doesn't do that, at least not on the same scale.
How would people react if someone made a movie about MLK in which he was portraied as a murderer? I don't think people would take very kindly to that. I certainly wouldn't.
It is fiction indeed, but do you know how many people are believing this garbage????
Then why does Brown make this claim at the book's beginning... “all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate”.
This is why there is an outcry.
Brown is a despicable liar and a coward.
When called on his "accurate" secret rituals and documents, he and his apologists throw up their arms and say "it's fiction.....it's fiction........"
He can't have it both ways.