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