Speaking before a packed courtroom in London 's High Court , Jonathan Rayner James , the lawyer for the aggrieved authors , Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh , said that Mr. Brown had '' appropriated '' the '' architecture '' and central argument of their book '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail '' ( 1982 ) in '' The Da Vinci Code , '' published in 2003 .
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