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 wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.
THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.
From the Hardcover edition.
丹·布朗(Dan Brown, 1964- ),美国畅销作家。毕业于阿默斯特学院,曾是一名英语教师。1996年开始写作,先后推出了《数字城堡》、《骗局》和《天使与魔鬼》3部小说,均取得了不错的销售成绩,其中以《天使与魔鬼》最为成功,奠定了他在小说界的地位。《达·芬奇密码》是他的第4部作品,出版后成为有史以来最为畅销的小说之一。布朗的作品已被翻译成多种文字,在世界范围内广为流传。
自从开始读侦探小说之后,我一直对密码解读不感兴趣。无论是爱伦·坡的《金甲虫》、柯南道尔的《跳舞的小人》,还是是乱步的《黑手帮》,或者是横沟正史的《蝴蝶杀人事件》中那些密码解答都没有太多好感。这其中最主要的原因是密码的解答单一性太弱,对于喜欢逻辑推理的我来说...
评分(一) 小时候看《说唐》,最愤愤不平的是秦叔宝为什么只能在天下好汉中排到第16名,可见对那个排行榜是很看重的。那时候模模糊糊的感觉是:凡是好汉,就一定要排座次,排不出座次的,肯定不能算好汉。《三国》没有明确地讲清楚谁武...
评分书看了很久了,书里面描写的很多东西对我们来说都很陌生,这也许就是西方人和东方人看这本书的差别。西方人看这本书的时候面临着对世界观的挑战,而东方人看这本书似乎反而能了解西方人有着什么样的世界观。 我觉得这本书如此成功的原因有如下几条: 1、丹布朗长期关注基督教...
评分 评分我拿到这本书后,差不多二十几个小时没合过眼。感觉回到了看金庸的年代。没错,这是本为畅销而写的畅销书:合上以后你不会想看第二遍。但畅销书写到这份上,差不多可以算极致了。悬疑、转折、追车、谋杀、美女救英雄,样样不缺。你会得到和看一部好来坞大片同样的快乐,只不过...