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AUTHOR |
Brown, Dan, 1964-. |
TITLE |
The Da Vinci code : a novel / Dan Brown. |
IMPRINT |
New York : Anchor Books, c2003. |
DESCRIPTION |
489 p. ; 18 cm. |
SUMMARY |
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. |
SUBJECT |
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Fiction. |
SUBJECT |
Art museum curators -- Crimes against -- Fiction. |
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Cryptographers -- Fiction. |
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Grail -- Fiction. |
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Secret societies -- Fiction. |
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Paris (France) -- Fiction. |
DISCIPLINE |
Fiction. |
ISBN |
1400079179. |
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