The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown's bestselling novel, has something for everyone: a story of fast-moving murders, puzzles, riddles, anagrams, and art-historical mysteries. However, there is a difficult side to what Dan Brown is creating in his novel. On the surface it offers a sweeping story involving intrigue, murder, secrecy and romance. But underneath lies the exposure of a whole host of multiple conspiracy theories, including the secret identity of the Holy Grail, the true identity of Jesus, the marriage of Jesus and Marry Mathew, the Prieure de Sion secret society, and corruption at the heart of the Catholic Church. Thus, although Brown's novel has fascinated many readers, it has sparked the same level of controversy among others. One of the main reasons for this controversy is how Brown claims this novel is 100% accurate. It's one thing to write a fiction book that plays with history, but to claim that what's written in the novel is real is another thing. These statements that Brown makes go against historical biblical history. Having said that, this would mean that the biblical story is also 100% truthful, which cannot be proven. Biblical history was recorded by men after the fact. While it is not certain that everything in the novel is biased, both the Holy Grail and the Prior of Siron are not as accurate as Brown claims. Curiously, then, immediately after the accolades, the Da Vinci Code offers a page titled "Done." The author explains to the reader that the Priory of Sion is a real organization and that in 1975 the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris found a collection of documents now known as 'Les Dossiers Secrets' which outlined the various secrets of the Priory including the names of previous ... half of the sheet ... old, or rather, a character tells another (p. 257), that '...the lineage of Christ was in perpetual danger. The early Church feared that if the lineage were allowed to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually emerge and challenge the... doctrine... of a divine Messiah...' It is now at least plausible that, if Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and conceived, the Church might want to keep quiet. Therefore (in Brown's version of things), since their marriage is known to no one, the Church must have managed to keep it a secret – and therefore it must be true. Therefore, the lack of evidence itself constitutes its own evidence, demonstrating how effective the conspiracy of silence has been over the centuries. (Yet one can't help but wonder how it was possible that Lovelich and Hardyng inadvertently revealed the secret in the 15th century.)