Last week, the Internet was abuzz with a story about a novel by Simon Kernick called Deadline, which the U.K. bookseller W.H. Smith was selling in an edition that featured author Dan Brown’s name above Kernick’s, and in a significantly larger font. Cover copy below Brown’s name read, “If you like your thrillers as fast, furious and unputdownable as Dan Brown, then we thought you’d enjoy …” followed by Kernick’s name and the title of the book. Bloggers (including, ahem, us) immediately responded with angry posts decrying the duplicity involved in this literary scam. One of the angriest was from Pace J. Miller, who wrote a post called “The Most Disgraceful Cover Ever!” which read, in part:

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Brown’s latest novel, “The Lost Symbol,” will be released on September 15 and again features the fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, with the story taking place over a 12-hour period.
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