The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown, his second book to feature symbologist Robert Langdon after Angels & Demons. The story opens with a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris that draws Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu into a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei, built on the premise that the Merovingian kings of France descended from a bloodline joining Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. The novel provoked wide denunciation from Christian denominations and criticism from scholars over its historical claims, while becoming one of the best selling American novels of all time, with about eighty million copies sold by 2009 and translations into forty four languages. A film adaptation was released by Columbia Pictures in 2006. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/