The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

Once again, Dan Brown takes us on a wild hunt, blending myth and murder, with Robert Langdon, the Indiana Jones of religious symbology.

The famous French curator, Jacques Saunière, is found murdered in the Louvre. Somehow, before dying, he manages to leave a coded message for his granddaughter, Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist and Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology professor. They begin a danger-filled quest for the culprit; but the deeper they search, the more they become involved in a twisted conspiracy with secret religious societies.

Released in March 2003, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has become a worldwide bestseller : more than 6 million copies have been sold around the world and soon, it will even become a movie.
Why such a success? Well, the plot is rich, the novel is very well written as well as brain-teasing. The characters, who travel from the streets of Paris to the dark cathedrals of England, following a trail of hidden clues, have to solve riddles, break codes, and decipher messages hidden not only in Da Vinci's work but in all kinds of art very well known –or so it seems- by the reader. Dan Brown obviously did extensive research and succeeds in blending both entertaining scenes and educational and fascinating facts in History, Religion, Art, etc. Some of his theories may seem far-fetched and you can bet they received quite a load of criticism, but they have the merit to try to understand differently our culture's great mysteries. I can say no more without revealing too much.
How much of this is fact and how much is fiction? Read this intellectually satisfying novel and see for yourself. One thing is for sure, you'll never feel the same way about Leonardo Da Vinci's art again.

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