HARVARD PROFESSOR ROBERT LANGDON RECEIVES AN URGENT LATE-NIGHT PHONE CALL WHILE ON BUSINESS IN PARIS: THE ELDERLY CURATOR OF THE LOUVRE, JACQUES SAUNLERE, HAS BEEN BRUTALLY MURDERED INSIDE THE MUSEUM. ALONGSIDE THE BODY, POLICE HAVE FOUND A SERIES OF BAFFLING CODES. AS LANGDON AND A GIFTED FRENCH CRYPTOLOGIST, SOPHIE NEVEU, BEGIN TO SORT THROUGH THE BIZARRE RIDDLES, THEY ARE STUNNED TO FIND A TRAIL THAT LEADS TO THE WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI - AND SUGGESTS THE ANSWER TO A MYSTERY THAT STRETCHES DEEP INTO THE VAULT OF HISTORY. LANGDON SUSPECTS THE LATE CURATOR WAS INVOLVED IN THE PRIORY OF SION - A CENTURIES OLD SECRET SOCIETY - AND HAS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO PROTECT THE PRIORY S MOST SACRED TRUST: THE LOCATION OF A VASTLY IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS RELIC HIDDEN FOR CENTURIES. BUT IT NOW APPEARS THAT OPUS DEL, A CLANDESTINESECT THAT HAS LONG PLOTTED TO SEIZE THE PRIRORY S SECRET, HAS NOW MADE ITS MOVE. UNLESS LANGDON AND NEVEU CAN DECIPHER THE LABYRINTHINE CODE AND QUICKLY ASSEMBLE THE PLECES OF THE PUZZLE, THE PRIORY S SECRET - AND A STUNNING HISTORICAL TRUTH - WILL BE LOST FOREVER...BREAKING THE MOULD OF TRADITIONAL SUSPENSE NOVELS, THE DA VINCI CODE IS SIMULTANEOUSLY LIGHTNING-PACED, INTELLIGENT AND INTRICATELY LAYERED WITH REMARKABLE RESEARCH AND DETAIL. FROM THE OPENING PAGES TO THE UNPREDICTABLE AND STUNNING CONCLUSION, DAN BROWN PROVES HIMSELF TO BE A MASTER STORYTELLER. - from Amzon