Category: Fiction/Mystery – Paperback: 605 pages – Publisher: Corgi
First Published: 2004
Blurb: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci – and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vaults of history.
Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever…
My Thoughts: Utter, utter junk food for the mind but thoroughly enjoyable all the same. The riddles and plot twists are implausible but intriguing, the pace is fast and the pages almost turn themselves. The fact that Brown can’t write women characters for toffee is hidden by the plot involving only one, who isn’t the lead anyway. I suspect this won’t stand up to any strong scrutiny or win many awards but if the hype is anything to go by I’m not the only one to think it’s okay to indulge in junk food every now and then.
Rating: 8/0
(My Book Review Scale)
Source: Picked up at a bookcrossing meet in Leeds.
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