Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre Jacques Saunlere 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 centuries old secret society
- & has sacrificed his life to protect the Priorys most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it now appears that Opus Del a clandestinesect that has long plotted to seize the Prirorys secret has now made its move. Unless Langdon & Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code & quickly assemble the pleces of the puzzle the Priorys 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. From the opening pages to the unpredictable & stunning conclusion Dan Brown proves himself to be a master storyteller.