This book was printed in the UK, imported to the Netherlands, and then sent to the US as a Sinterklaas gift, so it's already traveled a bit. If you liked the Da Vinci Code and similar books, you'll probably like this. It wasn't quite to my taste, but then, I never met a Dan Brown novel I liked either, and I thought this was better written than his books are. The ending was a bit of a letdown though, I thought.

From the back:


July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe...

July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past--her past--has been revealed.

RELEASE NOTES:

Plan to drop this off when I'm in the area, along with several other books.