num_pages: 454
description: 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.In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown’s bestselling Angels &amp; Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.
language: English
title: The Da Vinci Code
titlecomplete: The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
characters: Silas (The Da Vinci Code), Manuel Aringarosa, André Vernet, Jerome Collet, Sir Leigh Teabing, Sophie Neveu, Robert Langdon, Rémy Legaludec, Bezu Fache
genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Novels, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 2291356
places: England, France
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: Doubleday