The Da Vinci Code is the book of this decade. Maybe the most attractive book of the first half of the Millennium. Why? The
bombing polemics provoked by its appearance are a reasonable justification for such statement.
No other book, in our age, has generated so fast and powerful reactions. So, no other book has also obtained such attention. This pulled millions of readers to buy the book and find out the reasons of the debate.
The story is about a secret code, used by Leonardo Da Vinci, who represented some secret and esoteric truth about the Jesus Christ life in his painting titled The Last Dinner.
This truth would shatterer the bases of the Vatican Church: it's told that Christ would have end his life in a rather different way from the way presented by his apostled Peter and Paul, who are notoriously the founders of the Catholic institution.
Dan Brown builds a thriller story around this supposed secret version of Christ life. There are
mysterious killers paid by Opus Dei, who commit murders in order to keep the story under a barrier of silence and ignorance. On the other side, we have the brave professor Langdon who runs and fights on the name of the truth.
The plot is suggestive, and the literary construction deserves the attentions that still nowadays the book is catching.