The Da Vinci Code: The Illustrated Collector's Edition

Author: Dan Brown (USA) & Zhu Zhenwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: At midnight, the elderly curator of the Louvre Museum was murdered on the parquet floor of the exhibition hall. In his final moments, the curator stripped naked and unmistakably posed his body in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, "Vitruvian Man," leaving an enigmatic cipher beside the body. Symbolist expert Robert Langdon and cryptanalysis genius Sophie Neveu discovered that a series of clues were hidden within Leonardo da Vinci's artworks while organizing a pile of bizarre ciphers! Langdon suddenly realized that the curator was actually a member of the Order of the Knights Templar—an secretive organization founded in 1099, whose members included many great figures in Western history, such as Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci! Langdon suspects they are searching for a groundbreaking historical secret—one that is both enlightening and extraordinarily dangerous. Langdon and Neveu engage in a battle of wits with a mysterious mastermind, traveling across Paris and London while constantly being pursued. Unless they can unravel this intricate mystery, the secret the Order of the Knights Templar is concealing—the shocking ancient truth hidden within it—will forever vanish into the dust of history.