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. While working to solve 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 -- 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. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. "From the Hardcover edition."
language: English
title: The Da Vinci Code
titlecomplete: The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
characters: Jerome Collet, Sophie Neveu, Rémy Legaludec, Silas (The Da Vinci Code), André Vernet, Sir Leigh Teabing, Bezu Fache, Robert Langdon, Manuel Aringarosa
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 2292211
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: Random House Audio Publishing Group