The Da Vinci Code - SFBA Book Club

Paperback, 454 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2004 by BCA.

(1 review)

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauni&re, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci — and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.

Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion — a centuries-old secret society — and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of an important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the Priory's secret, has now made …

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauni&re, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci — and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.

Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion — a centuries-old secret society — and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of an important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the Priory's secret, has now made its move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret — and a stunning historical truth — will be lost for ever. ..

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5 stars

Robert Langdon, a Harvard Univ symbologist finds himself in trouble when Sauniere, the curator of the Paris Louvre Museum is found killed under bizarre circumstances and the clues point to him. However, while dying the curator has left some intriguing symbols on his body and in the museum. Why did he do that? What is he trying to convey through them? Finding that might help Langdon to prove his innocence. The French cryptologist Sophie joins him in the quest for learning the same. They find out that the curator was actually the head of a secret society -- Priory Of The Sion. The society is guarding a most elusive historical object, one which could shake the foundations of Christianity itself - The Holy Grail. Langdon and Sophie find themselves in the quest for this object and against the unseen enemy who is bent on destroying this secret to protect itself. …

Robert Langdon, a Harvard Univ symbologist finds himself in trouble when Sauniere, the curator of the Paris Louvre Museum is found killed under bizarre circumstances and the clues point to him. However, while dying the curator has left some intriguing symbols on his body and in the museum. Why did he do that? What is he trying to convey through them? Finding that might help Langdon to prove his innocence. The French cryptologist Sophie joins him in the quest for learning the same. They find out that the curator was actually the head of a secret society -- Priory Of The Sion. The society is guarding a most elusive historical object, one which could shake the foundations of Christianity itself - The Holy Grail. Langdon and Sophie find themselves in the quest for this object and against the unseen enemy who is bent on destroying this secret to protect itself.

The Da Vinci Code is a fabulous thriller. Un-put-downable. Dan Brown delights with the details of historical facts, people and places. Fact after fact of modern Christianity is put into doubt as the author points to clues that are all around us. Works of Leonardo Da Vinci play a major role in the novel. I found myself crosschecking the clues in the novel using the internet and examining Da Vinci's works of art. And to top this, as the novel progresses, Sauniere's puzzles just keep on coming in increasing complexity.

"History is written by the winners."