The UUCLC Lending Library’s featured Book of the Month for November 2011 is “The DaVinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition” by Dan Brown.
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 race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. This special collector’s edition of The Da Vinci Code is filled with full-color illustrations that bring the art, imagery, and iconography of Dan Brown’s story to vivid life.
Cynthia Parkhill
UUCLC Lending Library
November 2011
