Codex 632: The Secret of Christopher Columbus: A Novel, (Paperback)

from bookhookgeek

Reading this book was a waste of time. I kept expecting it to get more exciting, but it didn't. Instead of a "DaVinci Code"-style thriller, it was more of a boring scholarly hunt through old documents. And when the "secret identity of Christopher Columbus" is revealed, I thought "who cares?"

from skraft001

Really stupidly written. Abandoned after 90 pages. If this guy a a bestselling author in Portugal then it either lost massive amounts in translation or they have extremely bad literature.

from bcquinnsmom

Let's just set the record straight here. Some reviewers of this book say that they were disappointed because they were expecting something along the lines of the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Well, nowhere in the blurb on the inside cover does it say that this book is an action-packed thriller. I l...

from ATechwreck

A young professor's life is turned upside down when he is approached by an American foundation to continue the work of a recently deceased colleague. His research leads him around the world as he tries to determine the true identity of Christopher Columbus, through his writings and other historic...

from Margaret-J.

Thomas Noroha is hired to finish the investigation of another historian exactly because he is an expert cryptographer; his knowledge of Portugese and Iberian history brings him additional insight, as he unravels a centuries old mystery about the discovery of the Americas. This is a real page-turn...