This best saler was just published in the begining of the third
Millenium and imidiatly became a world wide classic. It's succes may
only be compaired with this of Harry Potter or Catch 22, and not for
vain. The author geniusly mixes reality with imagination, historical
facts with
legents to create a magnificent intelectual triller.
Robert Lengdon, a young profestor from Harvard, is a world known
simbols specialist. During a short visit in Paris he is supposed to
meet Jack Sonier, the treasurer of the Louvre. However, Sonier fails to
show up and later that night Lengdon understands why, when he is taken
by the French
police to the crime seen where Sonier was murdured,
suposably as a symbol expert. In the museum he founds a horifying
murder seen, filled with symbols. The strangest thing is that aparntly,
Jack Sonier has cleverly seperated himself from his attacker and leaved
all of this
symbols himself. In the musium Lengdon meets Sonier
dauther, a decoding
specialist Sophy Neve, who tells him that he is
actually the main suspect in this case. Together they avoid the police
and begine a high andrenalin chase after the hints Sounier left to what
he and the
order he was the presedent of, the Prior of Sion, were
intitled of keeping over many generation, the Holly Grale. During this
quest they find out the true meaning of the Grail, and reveal some long
ago covered fiascos conserning the early Crisianity and the New
Testemony. During the whole jurny they are chased by the Opus Dei, a
radical Cathlic order aperantly guided by a misteriouse all knowing man
called the teacher. His guidence lead the executer of the order, a monk
named Sila, to murder the 4 heads of the Prior of Sion, including
Sourier. And of course, the Frence police, headed by Jack Pashe.
The
book is not entierly historically acurate which leads some critics
to the old saying "a half trueth is the worst lye". However the fans of
the book constantly remind us (and dare I say somewhat reasonably) that
this is after all Fiction, and therefore should not be taken seriously.
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