SummaryA mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo
Da
Vince.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of
Europe.
An astonishing truth...concealed for centuries...unveiled
at last.
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.
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