Criticism of The Da Vinci Code "Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought", referring to the British admiral whom Judge Smith admires. As with the book, this secret message made use of Fibonacci numbers for its encoding. Dan Brown has been sued twice in The United States by author Jack Dunn who claims Dan Brown copied his book The Vatican Boys (1997) to create The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Brown's now famous character Robert Langdon. Jack Dunn calls Dan Brown's actions, "The Largest Literary and Movie Crime in History." At a conference on April 28, 2006 Archbishop Angelo Amato, the secretary of
The Da Vinci Code you need to check your meds." While interviewing Umberto Eco in a 2008 issue of "The Paris Review", Lila Azam Zanganeh characterized "The Da Vinci Code" as "a bizarre little offshoot" of Eco's novel, "Foucault’s Pendulum". In response, Eco remarked, "Dan Brown is a character from "Foucault's Pendulum"! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist." The book appeared on a 2010 list of 101 best books ever written, which