The Da Vinci Code: (Robert Langdon Book 2)
Dan Brown's global blockbuster opens with a jolt: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is pulled from his Parisian routine by an urgent late-night call. The Louvre's elderly curator has been found murdered inside the museum itself, and the body has not been left without a message. Scattered nearby is a series of deeply cryptic codes that make little immediate sense. Langdon teams up with Sophie Neveu, a sharp French cryptologist, and the two begin picking apart the strange puzzle together. What they find stops them cold. The clues wind back through centuries of concealed history, pointing squarely at the works of Leonardo da Vinci as though the Renaissance master left a trail for someone, someday, to follow. The clock is ticking. If the pair can't crack the layered cipher in time, a historical truth buried for generations may stay buried for good. Brown keeps the tension wound tight throughout, and the pages genuinely fly. It's a thriller built on curiosity as much as danger, blending art history, cryptography, and conspiracy into something compulsively readable. Whether you find the central theory plausible or not almost doesn't matter. The ride itself is the point.
- Author: Dan Brown
- Publisher: Corgi
- Genre: Science Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0312947866
- Pages: 592 pages