The Da Vinci Code

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauniere, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo da Vinci
- & suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion
- a centauries-old secret society
- & has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centauries. But it now appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the priory's secret, has made its move. Unless Langdon & Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code & quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret
- & a stunning historical truth
- will be lost forever... Breaking the mould of traditional suspense novels, The Da Vinci Code is simultaneously lightning=paced, intelligent & intricately layered with remarkable research & detail. & in this exclusive edition Dan Brown allows the reader behind the scenes of the novel, which now incorporates over 150 photographs & illustrations throughout the text showing the rich historical tapestry from which he drew his inspiration. The visual sources, which provide both the backdrop & the stimulus for the novel's action, are revealed for the first time & uniquely complement the reading experience.