Da Vinci Code Summary

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Book: Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

Setting: France and Paris

Characters: Robert Langdon, Sophie Neveu, Lee Teabing, Jacques Sauniиre, Jйrфme Collet, Silas, Bezu Fache, Manuel Aringrarosa, Rйmy Legaludec

Genre: Fiction/Mystery

Summary

Five months before the novel begins, Bishop Aringarosa is called to the Vatican and told that the Pope no longer wants the Catholic Church to be associated with Opus Dei. The Church has decided to give Opus Dei twenty-million euro, which the Church had earlier borrowed from Opus Dei. A few weeks later, Aringarosa receives a call from Lee Teabing, who disguises himself as a devout Frenchman and calls himself “the Teacher.” Teabing tells Aringarosa that he knows how to find the Holy Grail. For twenty-million euro--money that Teabing does not need, but uses as a cover--Teabing will share the Grail with Aringarosa who can use it to bargain with the Church. In the meantime Teabing has bugged the homes and offices of prominent Parisians whom he suspects are at the top of the Priory of Sion. When Teabing has enough information he tells Silas, the albino monk, to kill the Grand Master and his sйnйchaux. Silas must first demand to know where the keystone is. When he kills the men, they each give him the same incorrect answer. Meanwhile, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon is in Paris to give a speech about his research. He is woken in the middle of the night by Lieutenant Collet because the Paris police need his help solving the murder of Jacques Sauniиre. The police captain, Bezu Fache, is actually bringing Langdon to the scene because he thinks Langdon was responsible for the murder. Before he died, Sauniиre left a riddle on the floor next to his body that included Langdon’s name. At the scene of the crime Langdon meets Sophie Neveu, Sauniиre’s granddaughter--although the police only know that she works for the department of cryptology. Sophie knows Langdon is being wrongly accused and helps him escape, but not before they discover more clues left by her grandfather.

Langdon and Sophie follow Sauniиre’s clues to a Swiss Bank where they uncover a cryptex. Without knowing that Teabing is the mastermind behind the murders that