Prominent players in the world of international publishing gave mixed reactions to the news that an insider had leaked the basic plot of Dan Brown's new novel 'The Satiricon Code' to the news media.
Any new release from Dan Brown tends to turn the world of publishing on its head as traders and the public at large tend to forget that other authors actually exist for a while, and discarded copies of Brown's previous blockbusters 'The DaVinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' litter the streets and subway cars of cities all over the world.
It has been alleged that the plot leak came from an embittered former employee of Brown's who seems hell bent on destroying the author's reputation.
The new book by Dan Brown, out in September, is titled 'The Satiricon Code' and features a binary numbers professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) named Neil Parker who accidentally stumbles across a mysterious freemason-like international network of internet conspirators who trawl through websites cyber-annahilating anybody whose views conflict with their own.
The lead character, Neil Parker travels to Paris, France, where he meets a stylish young French virologist named Mimi LePieu, whose American uncle is a broken man after being targetted by the 'Satiriconistas'
The couple embark on a series of adventures, assisted along the way by by a satirical website administrator Marco Lutonnino, who suspects that his own site is being infiltrated by the sinister Satiriconistas. The trio then go on to uncover a global internet conspiracy whose aim is global domination through subliminal forum posting.
London publisher, Gerrard Longleat told us:
"I'm glad this news has surfaced. Frankly I'm not a big Dan Brown fan. I find his plotlines stretch credibility beyond all reasonable boundaries, and his prose is plodding, clumsy and at best inept."
Editor of 'The Brooklyn Book Review', Barney Slaughter was rather more upbeat, telling us:
"It doesn't matter about details being leaked. It'll still top the best-seller chart for months on end. Dan Brown could publish his shopping list and it'd sell by the truckload."
Famous author, Sax Codpiece, whose '1001 Nights With The Cirque Du Soleil At The Crazy Horse Saloon, Paris' told us:
"People love Dan Brown. I love Dan Brown. He epitomises what the great PT Barnum once so memorably said: 'There's one born every minute.'"
More leaks as we get them.
