I haven't read all the comments so I apologise if my owncomments are misguided in any way. What is important is that I PURCHASED Deadline from Smiths, on the basis that it was Dan Brown's new book. The cover was the promotional cover spoken about above. However it was not offered as any part of a promotion, nor was it bought as one. I cannot see how there would be so much forore if the situation was as above - a book given free purporting to be a book that you were eventually going to recieve. I do not believe my situation to be an individual occurance. It is false advertising and I feel utterly deceived. The deception is on a scale normally associated with the culmination of a Dan Brown plot itself. I paid for it. I thought, justifiably it was a Dan Brown novel. It is not. I would like my money back, please.