John Macgregor: 2 books

Despite the extraordinary plot parallels between these two detective mystical conspiracy thrillers, before sitting down to write The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown likely didn't read the more literary Propinquity (published 1986) - for hardly anyone has read it. Thanks to a crash-and-burn by its publisher...

The universe is a very strange place. Ask any physicist. Cosmological and quantum actions often contradict common sense. Members of the Level II civilization called the Hamlet discover that something is mining our universe for its energy potential, resulting in massive world-line destruction....