The Da Vinci Code

About this book

While in Paris on business Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton Botticelli Victor Hugo and Da Vinci among others. In a breathless race through Paris London and beyond Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time the Priorys ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced intelligent thrillerutterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.