What's this Mr.Dan Brown?

The Da vinci code is an undisputable best seller of modern times.By making this statement i am not proclaiming something new but just mearly quoting some of the rare reviews for the book.The book has entralled many people, of whom most are not regular readers of novels.The author has intelligently used the papacy and religious offices for the mass publicity campaining which was taken too far and H.H Pope himself was worried abt the authenticity of the facts mentioned in the book. It is interesting that the first page of the book mentions that the novel is a fictious one but infact the reader may soon forget the line and moves in sway with the author as patients sways to a hypnotist.The author almost convinces and infact convinced loads of them that a holy blood line is wandering somewhere among us and some similar statements.The author had roped in some of the greatest hoaxs and some famous personalites including Leonardo da Vinci to prove some of his claims.
There is no problem as far as the book is supposed to be viewed as a fictious one but this one surely crosses the line and place the reader in a puzzled situation abt the postulates which r the basis for Christianity.The real problem came jus few months back when Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh sued Random House the publishing company of the book , claiming the bestseller lifts from their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.The case they put is tht the lineage of the jesus was their idea and dan brown had actually played with it.The case generated lot of interest as the Da vinci code movie starring Tom hanks is due release this month had to be stopped until the verdict is pronounced.Luckily for Dan Brown the verdict came in the favour of him so no harm done then. But it raised an ethical question, infact it is appropriate to call it as integrity question abt the way the author Dan Brown prepared his manuscript for "The Da Vinci Code".The point is that he was charged in several other court cases around the globe with IPS (Intellectual property Stealing).In last August, Brown was fighting a case in New York against writer Lewis Perdue, who claimed The Da Vinci Code plagiarised elements of two of his novels, Daughter of God, published in 2000 and 1983's The Da Vinci Legacy. The net result always seem to favour Mr. Dan Brown as he was able to get out of this by the magic word "Unprotectable ideas" as ideas like these are coherent and nyone can put their creativity to words.
The latest attack on Dan Brown is from a Russian Scientist from St. Petersburg, Mikhail Anikin, claims it was he who invented the phrase which Brown used to name his book, after he, had decoded the painting of the Mona Lisa which he claims to be an allegory of the Christian church, as the face of the woman is made up from two canonical images — the Virgin and Jesus Christ.The scientist claimed that he published same details some 3 yrs before Da vinci code and is hoping to prove that Dan Brown had infact had plagarised from his book. We don't know so as to how far this claim is correct but one thing is for sure that Da Vinci Code is not a genuine idea of Dan Brown. But who cares, the readers wants something new and so they don't care how an author gets the facts presented in the book but it should be the responsibility of the author to give credit to those who are associated even with the smallest part of the book.One thing is for sure Dan Brown played his cards well where other authors(on this idea) had failed which brought him money or fame . At this juncture we can do nothing but to wait to know more abt the probity of Mr.Dan Brown.
Till then.. Adios