THE DA VINCI CODE

Title:         THE DA VINCI CODE

Author:     Dan Brown

Publisher:  Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. First published in 2003.

Genre:      Mystery, Action-Adventure


Main Character : Robert Langdon

Quote from the Book : "Sophie gazed back up the emergency stairwell and felt torn. She knew she should usher Langdon from the museum immediately, and yet instinct urged her to the contrary. As Sophie recalled her first childhood visit to the Denon Wing, she realized that if her grandfather had a secret to tell her, few places on earth made a more apt rendezvous than Da Vinci's Mona Lisa."

Description: While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of      the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre museum has been murdered inside the museum, his body and the floor around him covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Even more starting, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society whose members included Sir Issac Newton, Victor Hugo and Da Vinci, among others - and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle - while avoiding the faceless adversary that shadows their every move - the explosive ancient truth will be lost forever.

Opinions: "Wow... Blockbuster perfection... [A] gleefully erudite suspense novel." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

                    

                    "A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure... [Brown] is a new master of smart thrills." - PEOPLE

                     

               "So many twists - all satisfying, most unexpected... Let's just say that if this novel doesn't get your pulse racing, you need to check your meds... This is good fun - Umberto Eco on steroids." - SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE

Verdict: Thrilling from the beginning until the very last page. So many twists and turns and a breath-taking climax. The plot is controversial and there were a lot of protests against the release of the book, especially from religious organisations. Nevertheless the book was a huge success and was later made into a movie starring Tom Hanks as Prof. Robert Langdon.
Games for PC, Xbox, Play stations, etc have also been released based on the Da Vinci Code.

RATING : 4.5/5