AN Adelaide author is taking legal action against Dan Brown, author of worldwide bestseller The Da Vinci Code, and the book's publisher, claiming breach of copyright.
Enzo Fardone, who claims to be an expert on the history of the Holy Grail after more than 20 years of research, yesterday accused Brown and Transworld Publishers, a London-based division of Random House, of plagiarism.
In a letter to Mr Fardone from Transworld, dated June 15, 1998, the publishing company said of his manuscript: "We doubt we could make a commercial success of it."