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This is amazing that a work of fiction has the Vatican's panties in a wad. Dan Brown doesn't claim that the Da Vinci Code is anything but a work of fiction - it is the Vatican and the Catholic Church that gives credibility to the plot by arguing that it never happened. Brown doesn't claim otherwise.

The publicity he has gotten courtesy of the Catholic Church has caused this book's sales to go through the roof.

Dan Brown doesn't claim that the Da Vinci Code is anything but a work of fiction - it is the Vatican and the Catholic Church that gives credibility to the plot by arguing that it never happened. Brown doesn't claim otherwise.

For cryin' out loud, Brown has done nothing but claim otherwise.

When appearing on "The Today Show," host Matt Lauer asked him, "How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?" Dan Brown responded: "Absolutely all of it. Obviously, there are - Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact."

Similarly, in an interview with "Good Morning America" when asked: "if you were writing it as a nonfiction book, how would it have been different?" Dan Brown responded: "I don’t think it would have. I began the research for The Da Vinci Code as a skeptic. I entirely expected, as I researched the book, to disprove this theory, and after numerous trips to Europe and two years of research, I really became a believer."

... In that interview he reiterates his belief in the book's historic value: "When I started researching Da Vinci Code, I really was skeptical and I expected on some level to disprove all this history that is unearthed in the book and after three trips to Paris and a lot of interviews, I became a believer…"
http://www.tfp.org/davincicode/meet_the_real_dan_brown.htm

Dan Brown doesn't claim that the Da Vinci Code is anything but a work of fiction...

Actually, I have never heard, seen or read where Brown states, unequivocally, that the Da Vinci Code is a book of fiction.

Can you point me to where he said it is fiction?

Dan Brown has given interviews claiming that his publishers made him label it as fiction (wink, wink). He has clearly intimated that the basic premises within the novel are true.

I don't believe in censorship or legal action, but I certainly think the church has a duty to respond to an attack.