This book keeps its pace and manages to achieve a good balance between the brainstorming & puzzle-solving part and the thrilling chase part. ![]() This is the best novel by Dan Brown as he finally overcame the tendency of his works to lose pace and drag in the later part. So, what is the secret of the Holy Grail? Why is it considered such a threat to the Catholic Church? Is the history of Christianity all that it appears to be? Is there a part of Jesus Christ’s life that the world doesn’t know? And who is “The Teacher” and why is he so interested in the Holy Grail? Would Langdon and Sophie survive? Did they ever find out the secret hidden in the second cryptex? And “The teacher” is ready to go to any lengths to get the secret including killing Langdon and Sophie. “The Teacher” used Silas to kill not only Saunierre, but other secret keepers belonging to “Priori of Scion” as well, to get the location of the Holy Grail. It is here that they finally meet the “ Teacher“, who had been spying on “Priori of scion” and who managed to convince Father Aringarosa, head of a christian organization called “Opus Dei” to provide him with a man called Silas. ![]() Teabing believes that the location of the Holy Grail is hidden inside the cryptex.īut in London also, they are not out of trouble. They are able to decode the password of the cryptex on the plane, but there is another cryptex inside with one more puzzle to solve for the final password. ![]() Together they leave on Sir Teabing’s private plane to England to escape the french police. It is here that Sir Teabing and Langdon explains about the historical myth of the Holy Grail to Sophie, its connection to various works of art including the monumental “The Last Supper” by Da Vinci.Īs she learns all this, many events of her past and her grandfather’s behavior starts to fit in places. Looking for an asylum, Langdon and Sophie arrive to Sir Leigh Teabing, an English gentleman with a vast estate and immense knowledge about “The Holy Grail”. But, to get to this, Langdon had to run away from police, which means that to police, he now appears as guilty. If the cryptex was broken, the papers will be destroyed. She shows him the complete cryptic message written by Saunierre, claiming that it was intended for her as she is his grand daughter, and together they are supposed to solve the puzzles and find the secret that he was trying to pass on.įollowing Saunierre’s codes and anagrams written on floor and paintings, and after many a thrilling events, they discover a key to his secret vault, from which they retrieve a cryptex, a password protected cylindrcial device that can house secret document. While Langdon explains to police Chief Bezu Fache that the pentacle is representative of the female goddess and not a symbol of devil worship and that Saunierre was one of the leading and most knowledgeable person in the history of goddess worship, they are joined by Sophie Neveu. Langdon thinks that he is called in to serve as a symbologist, he doesn’t know that Saunierre had also written his name on the floor, which has made him the prime suspect for the murder. He had also drawn a pentacle on his abdomen. ![]() The story starts with a murder inside Louvre, Paris and the french police calling Langdon to witness the bizarre scene of the murder, where the victim, none other than Jacque Saunierre, the curator of Louvre, had taken enough trouble in the last moments of his life to write a puzzle on the floor with his own blood and orient himself in a position that imitates Lionardo Da Vinci’s famous drawing “The Vitruvian Man”. The book describes the second adventure of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, once again set in reference with a secret society called “Priory of Scion”, a chain of murders, a 24 hour time frame, a mysterious villain, an assassin and a heroin named Sophie Nevue to accompany him on the journey. Transworld Digital Published: (01 edition: 6 July 2010)ĭoubleday Col Ill edition (2 November 2004)īuy this book from Amazon (Kindle Edition)
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