ABRIDGED EDITIONIf I die the truth will be lost for ever I must pass on the secret History professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in France the curator of the Louvre in Paris has been brutally murdered inside the museum Alongside the body police have found a series of baffling codes & need Langdon's help to decipher them When Langdon & a French cryptologist Sophie Neveu begin to sort through the bizarre riddles they find a trail that leads to the works of the famous artist & inventor Leonardo Da Vinci As the clues unfold Langdon & Neveu must decipher the code & quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle before a stunning historical truth is lost forever