The Da Vince Code: A Treasure Hunt Like No Other

''You don't find her, she finds you''

 The Da Vinci Code is a CODE, a RIDDLE, a POEM

A book review

It was the second time I was reading the book and it is even more exciting than during my high school days when the book had just been released.

Originally published in 2003, The Da Vinci Code is as intriguing today as it was 15 years ago.

The book reveals just enough on each page and in each short chapter, to cause you to race to the next.

You know the book is good, when you start rooting for the characters, feeling the danger they face, praying for their success and cheering them at each small victory. I did that as I read The Da Vinci Code.

As you follow American symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu who are hunting for clues, solving riddles and puzzles in the quest for the 'Holy Grail', you cannot help but solve with them the simple yet tough to crack nuts that curator Jacques Sauniere designed.

The Da Vinci Code whispers Secrets. TRUTH hidden in plain sight.

The Da Vinci Code glorifies Women. A mortal GODDESS that gives life.

The Da Vince Code exposes the Church. Its secrets give POWER to those who keep them and to those who unearth them.

The Da Vinci Code celebrates Family. A double edged sword, a bond so deep it expels fear for harm that might come to self and yet amplifies fear for harm that might come to those one loves.

The plot as written by the author
 

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. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to 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.

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. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory’s most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory’s secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory’s secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.