The Da Vinci Code (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

Author: (USA) Brown
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: At midnight, the elderly director of the Louvre Museum was murdered on the parquet floor of the exhibition hall. In his final moments, the director stripped naked and unmistakably posed his body in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, "Vitruvian Man," leaving an enigmatic code beside the body. Semiotics expert Robert Langdon and cryptanalysis genius Sophie Neveu, while organizing a pile of bizarre codes, discovered that a series of clues were hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's artworks! Langdon suddenly realized that the director was actually a member of the Order of the Knights Templar—a secret organization founded in 1099, whose members included many great figures in Western history, such as Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci! Langdon suspected that they were searching for a groundbreaking historical secret—one that was 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 solve this intricate mystery, the secret the Knights Templar are concealing—the shocking ancient truth hidden within it—will forever vanish into the dust of history.