What author can you compare Dan Brown to?

[dcboys81]

I hated reading until I found Dan Brown. All 4 of his novels kept me wanting to read. Then I had no more and tried a Dean Koontz book. Wasn't a huge fan, took me 10x as long to read it. Any authors out there similar to Brown that you could recommend me trying?

 

[TriCyclic]

The book he read in 1994 that inspired him to be a writer was Sidney Sheldon's The Doomsday Conspiracy.

 

[mcdisney2001]

Ken Follet. I didn't like either author personally, but many comparisons have been made between them. Try Follet's "Pillars of the Earth."

 

[Mark]

Tom Clancy

Robert Ludlum (read his early stuff)

Alex Berenson (the book "the faithful spy" was excellent)