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I think Rowan sold these books every day, but he felt the authors were undeserving of their fame and fortune because he thought so little of their work. In the end, he got fed up, and reasoned that if they could have that fame, then so could he - but in order to make the statement that he wanted to, he had to write something that stood out above them all. And that was a problem. So, as a fan of the thriller genre, he decided to splice together "the best bits" of all his favourite writers to produce Assassin of Secrets. That way, when he got his critical acclaim, he could criticise those authors that he felt were undeserving.
I still think the man couldn't write a book himself and "borrowed" from other writers. He may have started out borrowing a little and ended up with borrowing most. Not to make a statement just because he is not capable of an original idea himself.
I would not spend one penny on the d***head, prefer spending it on decent writers.
Although it isn't the same thing at all the funniest case of plagiarism involved musician and former Beatle George Harrison. He was inspired by a song called 'Oh Happy Day' to write the similar 'My Sweet Lord' by playing around with the former song.
He never for a minute thought people would recognise where he got his worldwide number 1 hit from, but unfortunately, by creating My Sweet Lord from Oh Happy Day, he inadvertantly re-wrote The Chiffons early 60s hit 'He's So Fine'.
George was done for subconscious plagiarism.
1) a larger scale and
2) a different quality of plagiarism.
Perhaps that got lost in the whole hype around the case, but I wonder what actually was Rowan's own work, if any, then?
In most other cases there would seem to be some kind of original work of the plagiarist involved. Is this really the case with what Rowan tried to sell as his own book?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/13/120213fa_fact_widdicombe