Notes:
Da Vinci Code starts out with a ghastly murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The police call in Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology at Harvard,
to help unravel the mysterious clues left near the corpse. On and around
the body are riddles, which—when solved by Langdon and police cryptographer
Sophie Neveu—lead to clues hidden in plain sight in the art of Leonardo da Vinci.
Langdon learns that the murdered curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière
, was not only the estranged grandfather of Neveu, he was also the Grand Master
of an ancient society entrusted with guarding a secret that, if revealed,
would threaten the very existence of the Christian church.
Saunière died protecting the location of the proof of the Holy Grail.
Racing through the streets of Paris, to Teabing’s exotic estate, to London
aboard an unregistered flight, Langdon and Neveu try to stay one step
ahead of the French police, an albino killer, and a mysterious man who is orchestrating
this deadly search for the Grail. Intricate symbols and riddles lead
Langdon and Neveu to the exciting conclusion,
where the location of the Grail is revealed.