One of the historians charging Dan Brown with stealing key elements of their work for the Da Vinci Code, concedes a major point. “Your castigatory assertion… that Mr Brown reached all the same historical conjecture as you is untruthful,” said Brown’s lawyer. Mr Baigent replied: “I would concede that ‘all’ is far too strong. I would say ‘most’… We over-egged [exaggerated] that one.”