DAN BROWN AND MICHAEL BAIGENT have new books out:

'Da Vinci Code' Rival Releases New Book

By RICHARD N. OSTLING
The Associated Press
Monday, March 27, 2006; 5:19 PM

-- "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown and his courtroom nemesis, Michael Baigent, now have a new rivalry _ on the best-seller lists.

Brown's novel goes on sale in paperback Tuesday with an advance printing of 5 million copies, the same day that HarperSanFrancisco is issuing "The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History" by Baigent, with an initial hardcover print run of a much more modest 150,000.

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Sigh.

UPDATE: MSNBC has an excerpt of Baigent's book.

He turned over all those photographs without keeping copies for himself.

Right.

He neglected to get a receipt.

Right.

And he doesn't give the names of any of the British Museum "experts."

Right.