Rafael Ábalosis a Spanish author of the bestseller book, "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007, a ccording to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s 2003 mystery-detective novel?
The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris, when they become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ having been a companion to Mary Magdalene. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the finding of the first murder victim in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed similar to Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the "Vitruvian Man", with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood.
The Lottery in Babylon "The Lottery in Babylon" (or "The Babylon Lottery"; original Spanish "La lotería en Babilonia") is a fantasy short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It first appeared in 1941 in the literary magazine "Sur", and was then included in the 1941 collection "The Garden of Forking Paths" ("El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan"), which in turn became the part one of "Ficciones" (1944).