Den amerikanske suksessforfatteren Dan Browns bestselger Da Vinci-koden har gått som en farsott over oss denne sommeren. På kafeer, togstasjoner og i parker i New York, Mexico og Moskva sitter folk oppslukt av thrilleren der forfatteren lar en eldre kurator ende sitt liv på utspekulert grusomt vis i en av fløyene i det verdensberømte museet Louvre i Paris.

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Dan Brown . Millioner av lesere kloden over har latt seg rive med av boka «Vi reiste til den franske hovedstaden for å granske åstedet og jakte på storbyens kode.Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, a suspense story wrapped around a lecture on art and religion. Although the real meaning behind Leonardo's art is ultimately unknowable, the real-life places in which Brown has set his tale are known to historians and tourists throughout the world, and the book has inspired travelers to visit them. The Da Vinci Code opens with a late-night visit by the police to Robert Langdon, a prominent symbologist from Harvard University. The curator of the Louvre has been killed inside the museum, and a cryptic message has been found alongside the body. Thus begins a tale involving murder, religious intrigue, and a quest for the Holy Grail. To operatives of the Vatican and Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic group, the secrets the curator was trying to protect flew in the face of church teachings, giving both organizations an incentive to suppress them. After he gives a talk at the American University of Paris on mysterious runes at Chartres Cathedral, Robert Langdon returns to the famous Ritz hotel for a good night's sleep. A late-night visit from the police inspector Bezu Fache leaves him shocked: the man with whom he was supposed to meet earlier that day, Jacques Saunière, has been murdered.