elderly curator of the Louvre
has been murdered inside the
museum. Near the body,
police have found a baffling
cipher. While working to
solve 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 -- 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.
In a breathless race through
Paris, London, and beyond,
Langdon and Neveu match
wits with a faceless
powerbroker who seems to
anticipate their every move.
Unless Langdon and Neveu
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can decipher the labyrinthine
puzzle in time, the Priory's
ancient secret -- and an
explosive historical truth -will be lost forever.
The Da Vinci Code heralds
the arrival of a new breed of
lightning-paced, intelligent
thriller utterly unpredictable
right up to its stunning
conclusion.
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
The word for The Da Vinci
Code is a rare invertible
palindrome. Rotated 180
degrees on a horizontal axis
so that it is upside down, it
denotes the maternal essence
that is sometimes linked to
the sport of soccer. Read
right side up, it concisely
conveys the kind of extreme
enthusiasm with which this
riddle-filled, code-breaking,
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