Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Angels and Demons is the thrilling prequel to The Da Vinci Code. Embarked on a frantic hunt through dangerous catacombs and deserted cathedrals Robert Langdon comes face to face with an ancient secret society: The Illuminati.

Brown pretends that his novels "are so research-intensive, they take a couple of years to write". He also says that "the brotherhood of the Illuminati is also factual." Unfortunately his "research" are misleading or very superficial.

For example he wrote that "the Rhodes Scholarships were funds set up centuries ago to recruit the worlds brightest young minds into the Illuminati" which is not true: it was created officially after Cecil Rhodes died in 1902.

Above all, though the Illuminati is at the center of the plot, there is absolutly no reference to Adam Weishaupt who is the historical known founder of the Illuminati. He seems also to have never researched the Library of Congress like me about a letter written by Georges Washington himself which acknowledges the very existence of the group.