“The Da Vinci Code Decoded by Martin Lunn, an international bestseller, was essentially written by me as well [‘as well’ is a reference also to the paragraph before, Peter Levenda’s Papal Magic book ].  But at least I was in on that scam and agreed to it willingly. The publisher came to me and asked me to write it, but since I was already in a prohibitive contract with [Red Wheel] Weiser at the time, I couldn’t take the offer. So I let one of my friends take credit as the author and I only got a 10% agent commission. Then I lost my contract with Weiser because of Boyd’s [Rice] behavior, and that was it.”

Tracy R Twyman
December 8, 2009