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
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code papal headquarters to Avignon. The legend of the Holy Grail alleged that a sacred relic (in many versions, either the cup used at the Last Supper, or the cup said to have been used by Joseph of Arimathea to collect blood of Christ – or both) existed, which would bring untold blessings to any pure knight who found it. The story appeared around the time of the Crusades and is featured in Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur". In Old French, the Holy Grail was written as "San Graal". However "The Da Vinci Code", taking cues from "The Holy Blood and