<b>#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER <b>• While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. <br></b><br>“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —</b><i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br><br><b>“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.” —<i>People</i></b><br><br>As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover 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.<br><br> Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Nev