O.O

Today at work, we had a used book sale to raise money for the United Way. OK, technically, it was a fundraiser for the 'Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign' because this is government and why use two words to describe a charitable fundraising campaign when you can use six?

Anyway, I picked up a copy of The Da Vinci Code for a dollar - I seem to be the only person left in the hemisphere who hasn't read it and the price was right. I'm about a hundred pages in - the writing isn't terrific, but the plot is certainly cryptical. (Is cryptical a word? It is now. :-)

And so is something else: I was looking at the summary on the flaps of the dustcover (I got it in hardback) and noticed that some of the letters appeared to be in bold. The distribution of the bolded letters seemed random and I wasn't entirely sure that my eyes weren't just playing tricks on me. So I got a pencil and paper and wrote out the sequence of letters that looked a little darker. This is what I got:

Is there no help for the widows son(?) [Capitalisation and question mark are mine.]

The hell? What does that mean? Anyone? Bueller?

If anyone can tell me (unless it spoils the plot somehow), I'd be most grateful.