The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci CodeWhile 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

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 CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 03/18/2003
ISBN: 9780385504201
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.58w x 1.28d
Award: Buckeye Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Winner
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended
Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2002 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2003 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2003 pg. 53
Library Journal 02/01/2003 pg. 114
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003 03/01/2003 pg. 1
People Weekly 03/24/2003 pg. 44
Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1148
Entertainment Weekly 03/28/2003 pg. 72
People Weekly 12/29/2003 pg. 44
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2004 pg. 483
Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 04/01/2004 pg. 1
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
People Weekly 05/31/2004 pg. 57
Library Journal 11/01/2002
Time 04/10/2006 pg. 81
Men's Journal 08/01/2008 pg. 64

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 72765 / Da Vinci Code
Reading Level: 6.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 23