Da Vinci Code author faces court challenge

CONSPIRACY theories involving the Catholic Church and the Holy Grail will be investigated at the High Court in London today.

One of the world’s highest-paid authors, Dan Brown, is being challenged by two men who claim he stole their ideas for his blockbuster, The Da Vinci Code.

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh are suing their own publishers, Random House, claiming the internationally successful novel lifts from their 1982 book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, itself a best-seller.