num_pages: 464
description: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunlere, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - a centuries old secret society - and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it now appears that Opus Del, a clandestinesect that has long plotted to seize the Prirory's secret, has now made its move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pleces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever...Breaking the mould of traditional suspense novels, The Da Vinci Code is simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail. From the opening pages to the unpredictable and stunning conclusion, Dan Brown proves himself to be a master storyteller.
language: English
title: The Da Vinci Code
titlecomplete: The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
characters: Bezu Fache, Sir Leigh Teabing, Manuel Aringarosa, Sophie Neveu, Silas (The Da Vinci Code), Robert Langdon, André Vernet, Rémy Legaludec, Jerome Collet
genres: Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Novels, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 2291218
places: France, England
series: Robert Langdon
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: British Book Award
category: Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Zilveren Vingerafdruk, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Flume: New Hampshire Teen Reader's Choice Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Teen Buckeye Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Puddly Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
category: Adult
publisher: Bantam Press