The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together.
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by Paris police after the curator is found murdered with a strange code on his body. With cryptologist Sophie Neveu, he runs from the police across Europe to solve it.
Yes. Ron Howard directed a 2006 film adaptation starring Tom Hanks. Two sequel films, Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016), continued the franchise. All three are based on the Robert Langdon novels.
No, despite Dan Brown's note that organizations like Opus Dei and the Priory of Sion are real. The Priory of Sion is a 20th-century hoax. Most of the historical claims in the novel are disputed by scholars. The book is fiction.
The Da Vinci Code was written by Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Bantam Press.
The Da Vinci Code is 489 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Da Vinci Code takes most readers 7 to 11 hours to finish.
The Da Vinci Code is a standalone novel by Dan Brown, not part of a series.
The Da Vinci Code is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.