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Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a mystery anyone interested in the unveiling
of the deeper mysteries of the human psyche woven into a suspense story
will enjoy. When the curator of the Louvre is murdered the strange and
enigmatic message the dying man has painstakingly left behind leads
Captain Fache of The Judicial Police (the French FBI) to mistakenly
target renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as the murderer.
Langdon is summoned to the crime scene where the dead curator’s granddaughter
also shows up. Sophie Neveu is a brilliant cryptologist for the JP.
She warns Langdon that he is about to be arrested. They manage a clever
escape from the museum and the clutches of the JP and begin a desperate
headlong search to discover the meaning of the encrypted message before
they are captured---or worse. While pursued by the tenacious Captain
Fache they race through an intellectual labyrinth of symbological and
cryptic problems hidden in famous works of art and architecture. They
manage to do this within the framework of a fast paced plot where an
unseen puppet master manipulates events including murder in a race to
decipher the location of a treasure of secret knowledge and buried artifacts
that will shake the foundations of Christianity. Known as the suppression
of the Sacred Feminine, it's a secret concealed and preserved for centuries
by the Priory of Sion, an actual secret society, we are assured, whose
members have included da Vinci, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, Cocteau and
Sir Isaac Newton among others. The novel is intellectually stimulating
and the plot is fast paced. The unfolding enigma of the ancient secret
is riveting while entirely plausible. An enjoyable and entertaining
read. |