Da Vinci Code author says rip-off claims are 'completely fanciful'
He went into the witness box at the High Court in London to defend his publisher against claims that his internationally successful novel lifts from The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail, a bestseller itself after it was published in 1982.
Mr Brown agreed that his novel had been written after joint research by himself and his wife, Blythe, at their home in Exeter, New Hampshire.
