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. 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.
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.
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