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ISBN: 9780552149518

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

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Category: Crime, Mystery & Thrillers / Thrillers
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication date: 1 March 2004
Number of pages: 560
Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2005.

Description:
Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.

What the papers say:
"'Wow...Blockbuster perfection...An exhilaratingly brainy thriller. Not since the advent of Harry Potter has an author so fiagrantly delighted in leading readers on a breathless chase' New York Times; 'Brown's novel adroitly blends the chase-scene-stuffed thrillers of Robert Ludlum and the learned romps of Umberto Eco...For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide' Sunday Times; 'Exceedingly clever...Both fascinating and fun...a considerable achievement' Washington Post; 'A gripping bestseller...Brown has cracked the bestseller code' Guardian; 'Some genuinely fascinating insights into Grail history make this the best thriller FHM has read in yonks' FHM"

Author's Biography:
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons and Deception Point. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he has taught English and creative writing. He lives in New England and can be found on the web at www.danbrown.com

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