Lewis Perdue sent us an email in response to yesterday's item about the Seth Mnookin article that details Perdue's efforts to convince people that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a knockoff of his Daughter of God. Sure, Perdue admits, every single court decision has ruled against his claims that Brown plagiarized his work, but if you ask him, that's just because of Random House's "successful exploitation of loopholes that have subverted any measure of justice." He wants to make hay out of the fact that the only sworn statements heard in the case were his own affadavits—while the briefs filed by Brown's publisher, though they were so persuasive that, as Mnookin points out, they were incorporated wholesale into the court's decision, were in his opinion "filled with distortions, falsehoods and misrepresentations," none of which face any threat of perjury charges.

And while the Vanity Fair piece certainly made it sound like the fight against Dan Brown had totally consumed Perdue's life and brought him to tbe brink of some sort of intense unpleasantness or other, one notes that the sigfile on his email includes a plug for Perfect Killer, a thriller which was published last fall by Forge. (Which, of course, isn't to downplay the financial burdens Perdue has generated for himself chasing after Brown...)