I know what the controversy was Parker, I was getting at how it was worldwide. The church, somewhere was always trying to censor it or prevent it from being shown.
Part of the "controversy" wasn't just about the church though, at first, Dan Brown did not refute that his book was in fact not fiction. He let it play out a little(brilliant marketing if you ask me) before saying it was a book of fiction with fact ingeniously woven into the story. A lot of books do that I know...but Brown did it in a way that was just flawless.
I haven't heard anything about the The Solomon Key, what will this one be about Bay? I thouroughly enjoyed the first two books.