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Titre :
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The Da Vinci Code
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Auteurs :
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Dan Brown
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Type de document :
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document électronique
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Editeur :
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[S.l.] : Anchor Books, 2006
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-1-4000-7917-9
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Résumé :
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ingenious 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.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpieceÔÇöfrom its opening pages to its stunning conclusion. SUMMARY: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon 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 members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.
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