During a business trip to Paris, Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent phone call: the curator of the Louvre Museum has been murdered inside the museum. Next to the body, there is a message. When Langdon and the charismatic Sophie Neveu, a cryptographer and granddaughter of the murdered curator, arrive at the crime scene, they discover a series of clues that lead them to the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

The professor is faced with the suspicion that he is about to reveal a historic secret that takes the breath away - the secret of these brilliant minds that over the centuries has become a deadly threat to the world.
In a frantic pursuit, Langdon and Neveu must confront invisible forces that anticipate their every move. If they fail to decipher the labyrinthine puzzle, the secret of the organization - a stunning global truth - will be lost forever...
In the book The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully composes an astonishing thriller, in which the mystery of revealing the greatest conspiracy of the past two thousand years is thrillingly intertwined with the presentation of the occult history of the Western world.
A relentless chase, a search lost in secret codes that lead us to the depths of a story forgotten through the ages. Brown's writing captivates, combining the thrilling plot of a thriller with art, history, and religion. From the first page to the last, Brown proves his talent.

The book was adapted into a film by Ron Howard, in the eponymous movie (2006), starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, and Ian McKellen in the lead roles.