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The Da Vinci Code

The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds with strange symbols carved into his body and left where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Robert Langdon, a leading symbologist from the United States, whom they also suspect may be the perpetrator. Sophie Neveu, a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter, arrives to help. As Sophie and Robert dig deeper into the case, they discover the victim's involvement in the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members have been privy to forbidden knowledge dating back to the birth of Christianity. In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy Grail while members of an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world.

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