Summary
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
The mysterious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race for European cathedrals and castles. A startling truth...hidden for centuries...is finally revealed.
The biggest conspiracy in the last 2,000 years is about to reach its climax...
Busy on business in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent phone call in the middle of the night: the temporary curator of the Louvre has been murdered at the museum. The police found a confusing code near the body. Solving the enigma, Langdon is amazed to discover that it leads him to a series of clues hidden in Da Vinci's works... clues that are in plain sight... and at the same time ingeniously hidden by the author.
Langdon teams up with the talented French cryptographer Sophia Nevo. The two discover that the late curator was connected to the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci himself. The curator of the Louvre sacrificed his life to protect the most sacred secret of the Priory of Sion: the location of an extremely important religious relic, hidden for centuries.
In a breakneck chase through Paris and London, Langdon and Nevo collide with a mysterious powerful man who seems to work for Opus Dei, a controversial Catholic sect under the protection of the Vatican, and who has long been trying to get to the secrets of the Monastery of Sion. If Langdon and Nevo do not decipher the complicated riddle in time, the secret of the Priory will be lost forever.
The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new kind of fast, intelligent thriller that, completely unpredictable, draws us deeper and deeper into the story... until the incredible final denouement.
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