The curator of the Louvre has been murdered in cold blood. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers, and it is left up to Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of Symbology to crack these codes. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci and even further. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, this invaluable historical truth will be lost forever...