From the first sentence to the last, The Da Vinci Code is filled with action and thrilling twists. The book begins with the murder of renowned Louvre Museum curator, Jacques Sauniere. With the last threads of strength before he dies from his wounds, Sauniere leaves a complex set of clues to an incredible secret. The Paris police chief, Bezu Fache, calls upon Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor and symbology specialist, and Sophie Neveu, a police cryptologist, to help him decipher the clues left behind by Sauniere.

It turns out that Sauniere is Sophie's grandfather, and she believes the clues he left behind were instructions for her. Sauniere alluded to a secret about their family in a phone call to Sophie shortly before he was murdered. So Sophie asks Langdon to help her solve the mystery behind her grandfather's death. To do so, they flee from Fache...