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The Da Vinci Code Study Guide

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by Dan Brown
About 99 pages (29,555 words)
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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 as well as 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 to find the secret about her family that is alluded to by a phone call from her grandfather shortly before he was murdered. She asks Langdon to help her.....

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