The da vinci code

Robert Langdon, an expert in symbology, receives a call in the middle of the night: the curator of the Louvre museum has been murdered under mysterious circumstances, and a puzzling encrypted message has appeared next to his body. Digging deeper into the investigation, Langdom discovers that the clues lead to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci…and that they are in full view, hidden by the painter’s ingenuity. Langdon joins forces with the French cryptologist Sophie Neveu and discovers that the museum’s curator belonged to the Priory of Sion, a society that over the centuries has had such prominent members as Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo or Da himself. Vinci, and who has been careful to keep a surprising historical truth secret. A fast-paced mix of adventures, Vatican intrigues, symbology and encrypted enigmas that caused an extraordinary controversy by questioning some of the dogmas on which the Catholic Church is based.