Book info

• Title The Da Vinci Code
• Author Dan Brown
• Year 2003
• Genre Thriller

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 vault 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...

Thoughts

How to write this in a few sentences? Basically, Robert Langdon is framed for murder and to prove his innocence has to chase around France and Britain and discover the real story behind The Holy Grail.

Robert Langdon is pretty brave and clever, a Harvard professor and Sophie Neveu, although not striking as an agent of the French police, is just as smart and the granddaughter of a major part of the puzzle.

I love this as a brilliant thriller that keeps you reading from beginning to end. I really enjoyed reading this one, and the story behind it, likely with no truth in it at all, really fascinating.

Rating: 5 / 5