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Slate magazine's Dan Brown plot generator.
All you do is pick a city and an organization that can have conspiratorial overtones and voila, you have the plot of the novel of America's best-selling hack.
By selecting Philadelphia and the Boy Scouts of America, I came up with "The Devine Cipher."
"When celebrated Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Pat's Steaks to analyze a mysterious geometric form--imprinted on a gold ring lying next to the mangled body of the head docent--he discovers evidence of the unthinkable: the resurgence of the ancient cult of the Auxonistas, a secret branch of the Boy Scouts of America that has surfaced from the shadows to carry out its legendary vendetta against its mortal enemy, the Vatican.
"Langdon's worst fears are confirmed when a messenger from the Auxonistas appears at Citizen's Bank Park to deliver a fateful ultimatum: Turn over the archbishop, or one cherub will disappear from the Sistine Chapel every day. With only three days to foil their plot, Langdon joins forces with the lithe and brilliant daughter of the murdered docent in a desperate bid to crack the code that will reveal the cult's secret plan.
"Embarking on a frantic hunt, Langdon and his companion follow a 1100-year-old trail through Philadelphia's most venerable churches and historic libraries, pursued by a peg-legged assassin the cult has sent to thwart them. What they discover threatens to expose a conspiracy that goes all the way back to Davy Crockett and the very founding of the Boy Scouts of America."
It's fun. It's easy. Just go here to check it out and waste significantly less time than it would take to slog through Brown's latest work.
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