A CONVERSATION WITH
LEWIS PERDUE
ABOUT HIS BESTSELLERS

Q. With All the bestsellers you have had, you must be rich, right?
A. I only wish. The problem is that my publisher went bankrupt before I saw most of the money.

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WHAT THE CRITICS SAY

"Fine plotting."

– Los Angeles Times

"A very well-written, fast-paced novel of cloak and dagger operations that takes part entirely in Italy with all the local color it deserves."
– West Coast Review of Books

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Read about it in Variety.

2004 BESTSELLER LISTS:

New York Times
BookSense
USA Today
Northern California Independent Booksellers Association

Bestseller History
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Publisher's Marketplace

NEWS

"This is the most blatant example of in-your-face plagiarism I've ever seen.
There are literally hundreds of a parallels."
-- John Olsson, Director of the Forensic Linguistics Institute,
quoted in the New York Post.

"One 'Da Vinci' has sold millions, the other is little known. Lewis Perdue alleges the popular novel has his book to thank." San Francisco Chronicle

Correction to Chronicle Article

Interview on KNBR's London Morning Show, San Francisco (Windows Media Player required)

New York Post.

Interview on Good News Broadcasting which offers "affirming and thought-provoking, non-violent, positive news, entertainment and events in English and foreign languages." (Requires RealPlayer)

Holy Blood, Holy Grail Authors Preparing to Sue Dan Brown

According to the U.K.-based publication, Publishing News, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, authors of the 1982 bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail, are considering suing Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, for breach of copyright of ideas and research.

"PN understands that the trio is “marshalling its forces” and that any action would take place in Britain."

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Bestselling author's plagiarism cloud

The Daily Australian reports on September 28 that, "LONDON: The author of a thriller that has sold more than 12 million copies is to be sued for plagiarising two books published more than 20 years ago."

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Plagiarism is the Sin du Jour

"Plagiarism has emerged as the scandal spectator sport du jour," writes the September 29 issue of The New York Sun, "with stories of criminal copycatting threatening to elbow Cynthia Nixon's Sapphic leanings out of the press spotlight. Once the cardinal no-no of academia, the act of copying is, well, being copied. Students and dons are playing fast and loose with their papers and books, ripping off other people's ideas and phrases as if the Library of Congress was some all-you-can-eat Szechuan buffet."

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Plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code?

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