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. 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. 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. 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. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Million World Headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.Īll descriptions of artwork, architecture,ĭocuments, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.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. corporal mortification. Opus Dei has just completed construction of a $47 To reports of brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is aĭeeply devout Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due
Members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor In 1975 Pariss Bibliotheque Nationaleĭiscovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous The Priory of Siona European secret societyįounded in 1099is a real organization. Painter, front‑line editor, and without a doubt the most astonishingly talented Scribe, nurturer, musician, and role model. The sacred feminine, I would be remiss if I did not mention the twoĮxtraordinary women who have touched my life. McInerney, Margie Wachtel, Andre Vernet, Ken Kelleher at Anchorball Web Media,Ĭara Sottak, Karyn Popham, Esther Sung, Miriam Abramowitz, William Tunstall‑Pedoe,Īnd finally, in a novel drawing so heavily on Teacher and authorfor his assistance with the Divine Proportion and theįibonacci Sequence, Stan Planton, Sylvie Baudeloque, Peter McGuigan, Francis Tracking down so many of my research books, my father Richard Brownmathematics My gratitude also to Water Street Bookstore for
Regarding their experiences inside Opus Dei. Society, the Muniment Collection at Westminster Abbey, John Pike and theįederation of American Scientists, and the five members of Opus Dei (threeĪctive, two former) who recounted their stories, both positive and negative,
Louvre, Catholic World News, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London Record Library, the Department of Paintings Study and Documentation Service at the Of Culture, Project Gutenberg, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Gnostic Society
Of the book, I would like to acknowledge the Louvre Museum, the French Ministry Supporters, headed by Michael Palgon, Suzanne Herz, Janelle Moburg, JackieĮverly, and Adrienne Sparks, as well as to the talented people of Doubledaysįor their generous assistance in the research My thanks also to the initial core of early in‑house Thank you especially to Bill Thomas and Steve Rubin, who believed in I cannot fully express my gratitude to theĮxceptional team at Doubleday, for their generosity, faith, and superb And to the incomparable Heide LangetirelessĬhampion of The Da Vinci Code, agent extraordinaire, and trusted friend. Jason Kaufman, for working so hard on this project and for truly understanding
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