A Pius Man, as has been noted, has a lot of history in it.
Good ways to deliver data to the audience can be seen all over the place. Bad ways can be seen in The Da Vinci Code; being pedantic lost me a few pages into that book, and I'm a history major, you would have thought pedantic would have been right up my alley.
However, if you want to see a good, clean delivery of data, you might want to see Masks, chapter 12: The Diversion. Rebekah has a nice, straightforward and Hitchcockian way of delivering data while having a threat going on in the background.
However, welcome to A Pius Man ... based off of a graduate paper I did on the subject.
Which means about a metric ton more information.
Thankfully, a lot of what I've done with it has been a matter of cutting away ....
What do I mean?
It's sort of like having a cliffhanger in the middle of a scene: "Your hero is about to have his head bashed in ...."
Next scene: discussing history and what the latest information means.
Repeat as needed.
Run, as pissed off readers throw novels at you.
And, of course, people CAN skip the history ... if they don't mind missing the major plot points I slip in.
I'm evil and I'm glad.
Muahahaha....
That is all.
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