Jonathan Coad Summary of The Da Vinci Fraud
At the risk of being impertinent, this story has pretty well everything:
1. The utter de-bunking of the best-selling thriller of all time – which also incarnated in a very successful film – as it is proven to be no more than a shoddy exercise in plagiarism;
2. The complete discrediting of a book that caused international controversy amongst the 2 billion Christian on this earth because of its blasphemous theological content;
3. The exposure of (I would guess) the second most famous living author as a charlatan, thief, liar, and perjurer;
4. The exposure of a gross miscarriage of US justice in terms which will leave the reader in no doubt that a judge was hoodwinked;
5. Exposure of the malpractice of the attorneys acting for Dan Brown, Penguin Random House and Sony Pictures, as the book proves that they misled the court (Erin Brokovich/Dark Waters);
6. Exposure that Dan Brown also lied to/misled the US court by denying that he had even heard of The Vatican Boys prior to writing the Da Vinci Code;
7. An expert and comprehensive expose as 100% wrong the widely reported judgement in Dan Brown’s favour in Jack Dunn’s US copyright case;
8. Exposure that Dan Brown/Penguin Random House’s lawyers the forced Jack into signing away of his right to appeal by the threat of financial ruin;
9. Exposure of the subsequent cover-up by Penguin Random House of the rank plagiarism of one of its leading authors – about which they must have known post the US proceedings given the overwhelming evidence served by Jack’s attorneys;
10. The book records how Penguin Random House has written a series threatening letters – which it also quotes - trying to prevent publication of The Da Vinci Fraud;
11. Revelation that the character played by Tom Hanks in the movie was in fact created by Jack Dunn – as the book will prove;
12. Revelation that the US law of copyright, a right which stems from the Constitution, appears to be unfit for purpose;
13. Revelation that the UK law of copyright, also appears to be unfit for purpose;
14. The book echoes recent claims made by Blyth Brown in their messy divorce that her ex-husband is a serial liar and has passed of her work as his own;
15. The echoes claims by the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail that DB plagiarised their book – which we will prove that he did from the scarcely-reported judgment in that case;
16. The book also reports – I believe for the first time – that the judge in that case found that Dan Brown had lied to him, and was “making up” some of his evidence;
17. The book also – for the first time – tells the full and tragic story of that case, which we establish is also a miscarriage of justice, and which attracted world-wide coverage at the time;
18. The book proves that Dan Brown lied to the court in that action about how he came to write The Da Vinci Code, and is therefore guilty of Perjury;
19. The book also proves that Dan Brown breached the Civil Procedure Rules, which places him in Contempt of Court;
20. The book reports that Dan Brown has threatened Jack/Humfrey/me with libel proceedings, and that in response Jack invites DB to commence them;
21. The book tells the moving human story of how a little-known author’s work was stolen by another little-known author, who then went on to make a $160 million fortune;
22. It also recounts Jack Dunn’s traumatic “David and Goliath” efforts to right that wrong;
23. The book itself comprises the complete vindication of that author, and a triumph on those efforts;
24. The book uniquely puts the reader in the position of being a member of a jury at a trial of Jack’s claim that he was denied by the US judge, and allows them to make up their own mind after reading detailed submissions from both sides;
25. The book proves that the 100+ million people who have read The Da Vinci Code and/or seen the film are the victims of a massive literary fraud;
26. All this from a book which gains credibility and gravitas because the co-writer is a leading media lawyer who has a stellar client list and 30 years’ of international experience of dealing with copyright/passing off/plagiarism issues, for which he has done for some of the largest media corporations in the world.