mass market paperback, 605 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2004 by Corgi Books.
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vaults of history.
Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever... (back cover)
Great fun
Whether you have any belief in the central precepts of the story or not, it's a cracking good read. And it's an easy read too. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Abandoned this half-way through as the pace was incredibly slow and nothing seemed to be happening.
Absolutely the worst book I've read in a decade; the location of the Grail was obvious before the action had moved from the Louvre; the principal female protagonist is a French woman educated in Britain yet she speaks American English!
Dan Brown's incompetence is staggering. I was so embarressed to own a copy that I gave it away and I strongly resent ever having contributed to Brown's livelihood.
