The Smithy Code

Judge, Justice Peter Smith has decided to take the piss out of the piss take trial that he was lumbered with where Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh sued Dan Brown over Mr Brown's use of their historical work as a setting for his fictional novel. The judge found in favour of Dan Brown but people reading his 71 page verdict discovered that it contained a message encoded within it that started 'Smithy Code'.

Expect the book about the discovery of the secrets of the Smithy Code next year, a thriller set around it a couple years after, and the the trial as one set of authors sues the other a couple years after that.