[The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News] Watch out for Ukrainian Dan Brown Books

Origin of Fake Books Sought in Ukraine (WaPo):

KIEV — At open-air markets in Kiev this summer, devotees of Dan Brown, the best-selling author of “The Da Vinci Code,” came upon what looked like an unexpected treat, a sensational new novel exploring a deep Vatican secret.

Its title, “The First Merovingian,” referring to a Dark Ages European dynasty that according to myth descended from Jesus, hinted of a classic Brown story line. The book was written in response to a request that Pope John Paul II had made just before his death, a blurb on the jacket said. On the back of the attractively bound 511-page volume was a photo of Brown.

But when readers opened the hardcover book, they were sorely disappointed. A crude cut-and-paste job, it contained lengthy excerpts from histories of Christianity and the Inquisition interspersed with selections from a 14th-century anthology of short stories.

“This wasn’t an ‘honest’ pirate edition,” said Nikolai Naumenko, editor in chief at Brown’s Russian publisher, AST, which also publishes such American authors as John Grisham and Michael Connolly. “I cannot even describe it as a book. It’s trash.”

You can’t judge a book by its cover?

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