While in Paris on business, Harvard syht phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside thecipher While working to solve the enigdon 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 o, and Da Vinci, ah Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match ith a faceless powerbroker who seedon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory&39;s ancient secret-and an explosive historical truth-will be lost forever The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion