The Da Vinci Code

NY: Doubleday, 2003. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 739 pgs. LARGE PRINT. Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. Jacket photo: Mona Lisa: c Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis. DJ design by Michael J. Windsor. DJ#1159374 Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. PO sticker inside front cover. Price covers extra secure shipping w/tracking # in box. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match w... Source: Publisher.