The Man Who Walks in My Shoes
Unravelling a Religious and a Commercial Deception
PART I
The Da Vinci Code on Trial
A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
The true story of The Da Vinci Code and the plagiarism trial of 2006 has been concealed. It is stranger than fiction. The true story, until now untold, reveals a key witness and crucial evidence withheld from the Court. I reveal the two authors who were ruined and died, their copyright lawyers closed down by the English Law Society, the Judge who subsequently resigned, the journalist who was gagged, and his book, The Da Vinci Code on Trial, interdicted and pulped by Dan Brown’s lawyers.
In October 1998 I completed a novel I was convinced would be a best seller. I was right. My story was published 4 years later, attributed to Dan Brown, and sold 100 million copies. His publishers who never returned my manuscript made him rich and famous. They eulogised him as a man dedicated to the craft of writing. I was advised by the Society of Authors not to confront American premium lawyers in litigation, however meritorious and lucrative my claim might be.
PART II
The Priory of Sion
A SEARCH FOR TRUTH
The Da Vinci Code is based on a falsified history. It was created and circulated by the Priory of Sion which Dan Brown asserts as factual at the start of his novel. Most of the pseudo-history is easily dismissed. The verifiable facts stem from the discovery around 1891 by three French priests of a treasure with a secret that empowered them to fight state and Church authorities.
In this way, I believe the Priory of Sion diverted all who investigated “the mystery of Rennes-le-Château” by an account of events that went mainstream in 2003. In 2011 the society publicly thanked Dan Brown (for the confusion).
On 12 March 2008, my research acquired a new urgency on the sudden death of the author and investigator, Jean-Luc Robin. His death shocked the villagers of Rennes-le-Château following suspicious deaths since 1897 of anyone who came too close to the discovery … but of what? Am I at risk? If there is nothing to hide and no conspiracy (as the French authorities declare) then who is still – to this day – confusing, removing, and destroying evidence in and around the village of Rennes-le-Château?
PART III
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
A SEARCH FOR THE SECRET
In 180 the leader of the western Church wrote of a thing known to Judas that plunged Heaven and Earth into confusion. In 2006 Benedikt XVI referred to the mystery of the betrayal by Judas; something he left unexplained. An enigma at the heart of Christianity is something that turns it upside down, or is it right side up?
The concealed identity of the Beloved Disciple has puzzled theologians for 2,000 years. It is the secret the Church suppressed, the Templars found, and the Freemasons forgot.
It was known to Leonardo, a man who knew more than anyone else. In 1891 it was rediscovered by French priests and the Bishop of Carcassonne who came upon a vast treasure they chose not to declare to the Church, state, or the public. Father Saunière died in 1917 taking the secret to his grave, but it was etched in stone; in the small church at Rennes-le-Château for all to ponder, and no one to solve; it has become the centre of a mystery and of tourism, but it has not been deciphered until now.
The Man Who Walks in My Shoes
Unravelling a Religious and a Commercial Deception
The book, a history of falsifications, reports three periods:
PART ONE: a 21st century commercial and publishing deception
PART TWO: a treasure concealed by four priests from the Church of Rome and the authorities in France from 1891—1956.
PART THREE: the 1st century secret of Judas “that plunged heaven and earth into confusion.” It is the secret suppressed by the Church, found by the Templars, forgotten by the Freemasons, and confused by the Da Vinci Code.
EXCERPT
Dan Brown harbours more secrets in his life than his hero Robert Langdon manages over five novels. Several authors have accused him of plagiarism. In July 2021, in a lawsuit following his divorce, Blythe Brown accused her former husband of cheating financially and matrimonially, a pattern of behaviour that emerged at a critical point in his career just as he launched a children’s illustrated book, his music, a TV series called Langdon, and The Da Vinci Code on Stage.
The Da Vinci Code on Trial by The Telegraph’s investigative journalist, Hugh Davis, reported on the 2006 plagiarism trial in London’s High Court but the book was pulled and pulped by Dan Brown’s lawyers. Why?
The famous novel launched his career, sold a hundred million copies, and earned him over three hundred million dollars. Hastily written over four months in 2002 by two employees of Random House/ Transworld Publishers in London, the original research of Blythe and Dan Brown was very weak. Infodumps reveal the published sources of the pseudo history which convinced so many readers.
In his verdict, the Judge ruled that the real skill and labour was the weaving of the facts with the fiction. He assumed it was the work of Dan Brown whom he exonerated and reinstated with full integrity. However … Part One of this new book reveals the precursor novel which Transworld Publishers in London had possessed and praised since November 1998.