Da Vinci Code - Book Review

The extraordinary success that has accompanied the Da Vinci Code in Europe and elsewhere, suggests report it as emblematic of a type of literature that crosses borders and requires, for better or worse, the top sales worldwide.

The Code is also an example of how to bind a book and tell your pages to the religious and artistic history of Europe. References to the works of a master like Leonardo da Vinci, in fact, allow the player to sweep across Europe, from Italy to France, Britain, to Poland.

The book is then built on a vision of the least original of the origins of Christianity and the Roman Church, both cornerstones of European culture.

The story is set in France in the Louvre, known for its prestige throughout the world. Start with the murder of Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere, the head of a secret keeper of a terrible secret.

The Grail is in fact the only device able to provide the organization with unlimited power over the Roman Church. A coded message left on his deathbed by Sauniere deceive the French police he considers the main suspect, Robert Langdon, an American historian known for his studies of the Holy Grail developed on a book by controversial theories.

The coded message of Sauniere has however more than one recipient, a sequence of numbers contained in it, it forces the investigators to contact the Department of cryptology.

The expert is contacted Sophie Neveu, granddaughter of Sauniere, who has bequeathed a second secret. The truth about the Grail can hold immense power, it is much more than twenty million dollars offered by the Vatican to ensure that Opus Dei is discovered and revealed.

This is a thriller from the complex plot that sees first Opus Dei anxiously search for the Grail and the other trying to Langdon and Sophie to trace the truth was lost after the murder of Sauniere.

The intent of the Grand Master, the mysterious character who works in Finace Opus Dei is to reveal the secret about life and descent of Jesus to the world, but at the end Langdon manages to avert the danger.

The conclusion of the book will reveal to us later as Langdon able to have access to information in the box and discover what really is the Holy Grail: the place beneath which are buried the remains of Mary Magdalene, the supposed wife of Jesus and the progenitor of a race real.

What really makes the book compelling is no doubt that aura of mystery surrounding the Grail, because the plot as the classic thriller is able to excite the reader is left waiting with bated breath to discover the disturbing truth.