The Da Vinci Code
 Dan Brown
 (Reviewer - Gail Evans)
 2003 Doubleday
 ISBN: 0385504209

A Harvard Professor while in Paris, investigates a murder & the strange codes left by the body.

While on business in Paris, Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call concerning the murder of Jacques Sauniere, the elderly Curator of the Louvre museum. Beside the brutalized body, the police have found a series of baffling codes.

As Langdon & Sophie Neveu, a gifted French cryptologist, sort through the bizarre riddles, they find the trail leading to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, & suggestions that the answer lies deep into the vaults of history.

Associate Reviewer Gail Evans writes:

The Da Vinci Code is, quite simply, unputdownable. There is not one single boring moment, in fact, if anything, the reader can barely catch breath before turning the last page.

So what makes this intriguing thriller full of mystery & menace as riveting as it is? Dan Brown has ingeniously taken the last twenty years of research into the Knights Templar & the Prieure de Sion & compacted it into a powerful, fast paced, present day detective hunt.

In Chapter 60 he details his sources. Should you wish for less entertaining reads, but ones based on years of detailed research, Dan Brown lists such non-fiction titles as The Templar Revelation, The Goddess in the Gospels & Holy Blood, Holy Grail, all of which I personally found to be fascinating studies.

In The Da Vinci Code the clues to unraveling the mystery all begin with that enigma, Leonardo Da Vinci & his works of art, the Mona Lisa & The Virgin on the Rocks holding the keys to the puzzle. Langdon & Nevue have to decipher a labyrinth code so that the Priory's historical truth will not be lost forever. & following their every move is Opus Dei, who tries, at every turn, to prevent them & destroy the secret.

For anyone who wants to know more about the Knights Templar & the Priory of Zion, The Da Vinci Code is the most entertaining way to go about it.

Author Dan Brown can be congratulated on the ingenious manner in which he has interwoven fact & fiction. Highly recommended!

More from Dan Brown:
Angels & Demons
Deception Point
Digital Fortress
(10/05/03)

Gail Evans
2003©Gail Evans
A RebeccasReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
I currently live in Johannesburg, South Africa & am the author of: The Firstborn of God: Resolving the Contradictions In The Bible, Time Trials & Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa.