The Da Vinci Code

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. Solving 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…and 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. The
Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory’s most sacred
trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for
centuries.

In a breathless race
through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless
powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned
Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory’s secret.
Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the
Priory’s secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.

In an exhilarating blend of
relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert
Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown’s bestselling Angels & Demons) is
the most original character to appear in years. The Da Vinci Code heralds the
arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at
every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly
unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.