An adaptation of the worldwide phenomenon - with more than 80 million copies sold, the original
Da Vinci Code is one of the bestselling novels of all time.Timed to coincide with a major motion picture release:
Inferno, in which Dan Brown's hit character Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) is featured, is released in UK cinemas in October.Includes an introduction by Dan Brown, an 8pp colour insert - featuring historical places, landmarks and paintings from the story - and maps of London and Paris.Abridged for teen readers (13+) by 40% to remove content or scenes of a sexual nature, and altered to have less violent detail, the page-turning heart of this bestselling story remains.Potential school/library use as topics include history, coding, art history and science.
Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 international bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code, Inferno, The Lost Symbol, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress, and Origin. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. He lives in New England.
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ABRIDGED EDITION
If I die, the truth will be lost for ever . . . I must pass on the secret.
History professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in France: the curator of the Louvre in Paris has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes and need Langdon's help to decipher them.
When Langdon and a French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they find a trail that leads to the works of the famous artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci. As the clues unfold, Langdon and Neveu must decipher the code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle before a stunning historical truth is lost forever . . .
