Title: The Da Vinci Code Series: Robert Langdon
Author: Dan Brown
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 0552149519
ISBN-13: 9780552149518
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.
My rating:
Someone killed the curator of the Louvre Museum, and the dead man obviously left a clue to his killer (or at least that's what the police suspects). In reality, the inscription P.S. Find Robert Langdon is intended for the man's niece and means to enlist Langdon's help in protecting the secret the society, the curator has been part of, has been keeping for centuries...
It's always a pleasure picking up this book. As Angels and Demons, it too deals with religion (the Catholic Church) and its grip on "truth", but this time it deals with the beginning of the teachings of the "truth" according to the Church.
It might not have been as suspenseful as its predecessor, it certainly had less urgency and possibility of danger and/or death for the two protagonists, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a page-turner.
It offered a wonderful mix of history, mythology, religion, mystery and thrills with yet another minimal whiff of possible romance (which wasn't really needed).
Nicely developed characters, and a well-crafted plot with just the right amount of truth wrapped up in fiction, to make the big secret driving the story appear believable and more than plausible. The twists and turns were well integrated and interwoven into the fast-paced story with the final reveal of the main villain once more a surprise.
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