Sunday, August 28, 2011

Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, A Great Mystery Thriller Detective Story

Dan Brown, an American mystery writer, a New York Times best-selling author is mostly known for The Da Vinci Code, a mystery-thriller novel from 2003.



Setting of The Da Vinci Code is Paris. A curator, Jacques Sauniere, is shot in the Louvre. Before he dies, he writes the words „find Robert Langdon” on the floor, and also writes down some codes. As a result, Harvard Professor Robert Langdon becomes a main suspect of the police. He flees, and Sauniere’s granddaughter, cryptographer Sophie Neveu helps him to decipher the codes. At last, they find a cryptex in a Zurich bank – the cryptex contains vinegar, if one forces it open, the codes inside will be destroyed. Neveu and Langston take the cryptex to Leigh Teabing, and the three of them find the right codes. As a result, they go to England, however, Teabing is not the one he seems to be…

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