The Da Vinci Code
(Dan Brown)
The bloody corpse of the louvre's curator, murdered in the museum itself, spurs suspicion towards Robert Langdon. Langdon, an american symbologist, is interregated by a detective in the Louvre. With the help of the victims grandaughter, he escapes and they attempt to unravel the secrets behind the bizarre clues that the Curator had cleverly placed in the last moments of his brutal death, using the works of da Vinci and the clues the artist himself had left in his work. Clues that he must have known would only be solved by Langdon and his estranged grandaughter, Sophie Neveu, a gifted French cryptologist.
The two discover that the curator was a member of the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members had incuded the likes of sir Isaac Newton, Bottecelli, Victor Hugo and Da Vinci, among others.
The Louvre curator had sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.
The Priory of Sion had a secret that must be kept. The Louvre curator sacrifised his life to protect this secret: the location of a vital religious relic that had been hidden fro centuries.
The trail leads them through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei?a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret?and a stunning historical truth?will be lost forever.
In an exciting weave of relentless adventure, addictive plot, and cutting wit THE DA VINCI CODE the arrival of a new breed of page turning, intelligent thriller?surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, totally unpredictable?right up to its astounding conclusion.
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