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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