Following the recent mix-down of his post Prince of Persia adventure game The Last Express to more quickly-digestible video form, Jordan Mechner has just dug up and released Red Serpent — the unfinished first draft script of what would have become a prequel to Express.

Set 10 years before Express and starring that game’s main character Robert Cath, Mechner notes that “the plot bears a more-than-slight resemblance to The Da Vinci Code, which would be published the…