The Da Vinci code : a novel /
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 disco...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
2003.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Brown, Dan, 1964- Robert Langdon series ;
2. |
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| Online Access: | Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| 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 puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy donated by Victor W. Horadam. |
| Physical Description: | 454 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780385504201 0385504209 |