Tour groups are flocking to the Vatican in search of the clues in Dan Brown’s murder mystery Angels and Demons. “The book uses his sculpture as clues pointing to a dastardly plot led by a secret society against the Roman Catholic Church – a threat to blow up the Vatican as the church elects a new pope. Surely this is an opportunity for [the Church] to show they are not an occult force shrouded in mystery. Dan Brown’s implication that Bernini was part of an anti-religious conspiracy has left some art historians fuming. Others though are more pragmatic.”