ISBN10: 0385504209, ISBN13: 9780385504201, [publisher: Doubleday Books] Hardcover First Edition Signed, first edition with complete number line. Dust jacket in fine condition, not price clipped or faded, some very minor bumps to the edges. Book in fine condition boards have some marks on them, corners square, spine straight, some minor bumps to the top of the spine, text block and pages clear back board slightly bent. More photos available on request. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. ...
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