Audio Book Description:
While in paris on business, Harvardsymbologist Rober Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderlycurator of the Louvre has beenmurdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, SophieNeveu, sort throught the bizarreriddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hiddenin the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see and yetingeniously disguised by thepainter. The stakes are raised when Langdon uncovers a startling link: The late curatorwas involved in the Priory ofSion - an actual secret societywhose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. Langdon suspects they areon the hunt for a breathtaking historical secret, one that has proven through the centuries to be as enlightening as it is dangerous. In afrantic race through Paris, andbeyond, Langdon and Neveu find themselves matching wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to anticipatetheir every move. Unless they can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle, the Priory`s secret- and an explosive ancienttruth - will be lost forever.