The Da Vinci code : a novel /
Dan Brown.
- First Anchor Books trade paperback edition.
- 454, 7 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. New York, in 2003.
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 power broker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 --Appreciation--Fiction. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
Art museum curators--Crimes against--Fiction. Secret societies--Fiction. Cryptographers--Fiction. Grail--Fiction. Art appreciation. Cryptographers. Grail. Secret societies.
Paris (France)--Fiction. France--Paris.
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