Da Vinci Koden

Denne thrilleren har blitt en kjempesuksess verden over og nå er den endelig i norsk språkdrakt. Den gamle kuratoren i Louvre blir myrdet, og ved liket finner politiet en ubegripelig kode. Eksperter tilkalles, og de nøster opp gåter som går tilbake til Leonardo da Vinci og Maria Magdalenas tid. Sporene leder dem til en fantastisk historisk hemmelighet som berører vår religion. Boka er proppfull av kunnskap og mesterlig fortalt med en intensitet som ikke slipper deg før den er ferdiglest. I USA har boka ligget på bestselgerlistene i over 1 år. En av sommerens slukebøker! The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. The Da Vinci Code provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book has, however, been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Catholic Church, and consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The novel nonetheless became a massive worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 languages. In November 2004, Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 2006, a film adaptation was released by Columbia Pictures.