The Greatest Conspiracy Of The Past 2000 Years Is About To Unravel 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 & Demons ) Is The Most Original Character To Appear In Years. The Da Vinci Code Heralds The Arrival Of A New Breed Of Lightening-Paced, Intelligent Thriller... Surprising At Every Twist, Absorbing At Every Turn, And In The End, Utterly Unpredictable... Right Up To Its Astonishing Conclusion.