The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Doubleday (2003)
In Collection
#3308
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Mystery Fiction, Suspense Fiction
Art Museum Curators, Cryptographers, Grail, Paris (France), Secret Societies
Hardcover 9780385504201
English
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 Priory's 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 thriller. . .utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3552.R685434 D3 2003
LoC Control Number 2002040918
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $24.95
No. of Pages 454
Height x Width 9.8 x 6.7  inch
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