Dan Brown: ‘The human species has never created a technology that it hasn’t weaponized’

Dan Brown: ‘The human species has never created a technology that it hasn’t weaponized’

Dan Brown’s house in Exeter, New Hampshire, doesn’t resemble something out of a movie; it resembles something out of a Dan Brown novel. Bronze deer flank the door to a sprawling English garden, and bookcases conceal passageways. There are also copies of Leonardo da Vinci paintings, such as The Virgin of the Rocks, the original of which hangs in London’s National Gallery. Cheerful and fit — he windsurfs — the 61-year-old Brown has lived his entir…