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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. 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 can decipher the
labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an
explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. |
