Carter, however, has produced a page-turner, skillfully plotted and elegantly written, complete with murder, conspiracy, secret codes and political intrigue.
In the federal criminal code, conspiracy is a crime, as is material support for terrorism, as are the equivalents of numerous charges pending against the high-value detainees, including murder.
In 1999, Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned trod similar ground, creating an elaborate story centered around the mystery of the Knights Templar, who are central to the Da Vinci Code conspiracy.
In return for rewarding her with generous salary raises and large bonuses written from his personal checking account, Harb is accused by CaroleAnne of leading an office-wide conspiracy in which code words such as "bagels" and "meetings" are used to refer to her sexual promiscuity.
Meanwhile, the men engage in a conspiracy of "bro-code," which is broken so often that it's more of a bro guideline.
Watch what happens to bloggers, booksellers, nitpickers, code crackers, conspiracy theorists, fans and overheated search engines when "The Lost Symbol," Mr. Brown's overdue follow-up to "Angels & Demons"(2000) and "The Da Vinci Code"(2003), finally sees the light of day.
The theories about bullet trajectories, rehearsed when JFK was assassinated, are transmitted, while in the background people perform the sinisterly pleasant "Madison", which makes you realise that nearly all dances could be construed as a conspiracy whose secret is coded in elbows and knees.
Da Vinci Code style conspiracies.
Their plots overflow with paranoid conspiracies and secret codes.
The Model Penal Code also treats conspiracy as an inchoate crime, as do a number of U.S. states.
