Excellent read, realistic characters, well developed plot.

Former CIA agent Lang Reilly's sister and nephew are tragically killed in a bombing. He vows to find the real cause of the blast. All leads seem to eminate from a painting his sister purchased just prior to her untimely death. Layer by layer Lang unearths the enigma that takes him through Europe in a cat-and-mouse race, unveiling more clues until he arrives at a centuries-old answer that will stop at nothing to keep their secret.

Although Gregg Loomis was an unknown author to me, the plot caught my interest, and I read this book in one day. Looking forward to more page-turning thrillers from Mr Loomis.

This book was OK as far as Conspiracy's go. But I felt like this book didn't have alot of content until the end. And the ideal that this book is based on has been done before, and it didn't have the places, and history that a book like The Da Vinci Code, and some others have had.
I think that it's just really didn't have anything really original in it.

Almost finished and I can't wait to read his next one. This one was published about the same time frame as "DaVinci Code" and has a similar theme but different enough to keep it interesting. I think this was the 1st book he wrote. I started with the 3rd one, Sinai Secret, and was hooked.

All the books that I have read so far that have attempted to capitalize on the Da Vinci bandwagon have been not-so-great clones with variations thrown in, but The Pegasus Secret stands out as being different despite the similar sounding names of the heroes or the fact that a painting is at the center of the plot. In fact, I must say honestly that I found the premise of this book to be much more believable than the Da Vinci Code. What I like about this book (in fact I saw a similar style in another book, The Rozabal Line) was the punctuation of fictional narrative with historical narrative. It makes one feel less "guilty" about reading fiction because one also ends up "learning" something along the way. That being said, I think that the book drags initially but picks up momentum for those who do not get put off by the initial lack of speed.

Like most of the planet, I enjoyed reading the DaVinci Code. I've also read a lot of hystorical secret thrillers since... the market is flooded with them. This particular book is a straight forward application of the formula, with the only variable being his long-since-past employment with the CIA. That is used as a literary crutch a little too often to get him out of artifically created tight spots. I found myself drifting off the read quite often loosing attention to a conversation in the reading room, or thinking about something else while reading. I become completely engrossed in a good read, so I'd have to say that didn't happen with this book. It's not horrible, and if you really like the historical thriller, it's probably a good airplane read, but to devote a weekend to it would be a waste of a good weekend. If you read it's 369 pages straight through from Friday evening, you could salvage your Saturday night and reflect on your choice say "Hmmm, the Knights Templar are at it again!". Generok