Screen LibraryThe Da Vinci code：a novel
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Doubleday,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 489 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0385513224 9780385513227 |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/B877-5 |
| Contents: | 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. |