A MIND-BENDING CODE HIDDEN IN THE WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. A DESPERATE RACE THROUGH THE CATHEDRALS AND CASTLES OF EUROPE. AN ASTONISHING TRUTH CONCEALED FOR CENTURIES... UNVEILED AT LAST. "This is pure genius." -NELSON DEMILLE W hile in Paris on business, Harvard an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryp-tologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci-clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. The stakes are raised when Langdon uncovers a startling link: 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. Langdon suspects they are on the hunt for a breathtaking historical secret, one that has proven through the centuries to be as enlightening as it is danger-ous.

ISBN: 9780385504201