Brown wrote one book about the space business, “Deception Point”. IIRC, the plot was that a couple of aerospace companies had faked a meteorite with fossils in

Brown wrote one book about the space business, “Deception Point”. IIRC, the plot was that a couple of aerospace companies had faked a meteorite with fossils in it, in order to leverage a huge increase in the space industry from Congress. He made the mistake of naming the companies involved in the conspiracy. These were companies that, in the book, were powerful enough to buy off Senators, pay massive bribes, and leverage incredibly advanced technologies. He named three, and they weren't who you might expect (Boeing, LockMart, Northrop-Grumman) - they were from the original generation of “new space” companies. When I read the novel, I had worked with two of the three companies. One had gone bankrupt five years after the novel was published. The other had, as I recall, three employees. No more Dan Brown for me.