![]() Robert Langdon is drawn into this murder (and its startling aftermath) as the Inspector on the case, Bezu Faches, believes he is the killer. His body is found naked, arms and legs splayed, with writings (written by Jacques in his own blood) which are meant to be secret coded messages to his granddaughter, Sophie. The time it takes Jacques to die is time enough for him to set up the first of the puzzles to be solved. Jacques Sauniere is, as chance and the author would have it, the grandfather of Sophie Neveu. ![]() Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre museum, is shot in the stomach by an albino monk named Silas and left to bleed slowly to death. Both have skill sets, not by accident, which allow for great success at solving puzzles - at least the type of puzzles presented here. There are two protagonists, Robert Landon and Sophie Neveu - Robert an expert on religious symbology and a Harvard professor, and Sophie a cryptologist and Parisian police agent. ![]() The protagonists are dropped almost immediately into a situation of peril and must extricate themselves by solving a series of puzzles, with one puzzle's solution granting the privilege of looking at another puzzle, which also requires a solution. ![]() Author Dan Brown must either play or at least be aware of computer games the plot has a computer game feel to it. The first is a very good suspense thriller. The Da Vinci Code is, in a manner of speaking, two books in one. Click here to read reviewer Bonnie Toews' take on The Da Vinci Code. ![]()
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