Erik Graff's Reviews > Sion Revelation

This book appears to be a critical, level-headed expose of the whole Priory of Sion mythos as presented popularly through 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' and the books and movies based on Dan Brown's fictions (including parts of The Matrix films). The conclusion is that the Priory is one of several fronts for a right-wing pan-European movement originating in France.

I found much of this book hard going, mostly because of vast cast of characters. Many of them would be familiar to the French and to people well versed in French politics from the nineteenth century to the present, but I'm not and, so, found myself having to look back in my reading to keep track of the detail. What I did appreciate, however, was their representation of Vichy politics, not as it appears retrospectively, but as it was to people of that time.