And I'm not even half-way through.

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I am distracting myself by watching a DVD I picked up cheap the other day - The Da Vinci Code. I think I can deduce the existence of the following cover note.

Dear Rusty,

Please find enclosed your patent Total Bollocks Overdrive, the loan of which I am most grateful for. I do hope that I did not overstrain it when I attached the turbocharger, afterburner and electrodes, but I felt that my film of Mr Brown's novel needed everything I could wring out of it. I am sure that you will be able to recalibrate it for further work on that Torchwood thing you were telling me about in your last email.

Yours,

Ron Howard

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Yes, but presumably Opie had to borrow it again for the sequel, which features (at least in the book) an American spaceplane of fatally flawed design, operated by a major European high energy physics laboratory.

Other than that detail, I have no idea how Mr. Brown topped his first epic, nor how the filmmakers intend to modify it.