TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Dan
TI  - The Da Vinci code: a novel 
SN  - 0385504209 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Leonardo,
KW  - Art museum curators
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cryptographers
KW  - Grail
KW  - Secret societies
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "A desperate race through the cathedrals and castels of Europe." -- cover; Also issued online
N2  - 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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