Da Vinci Code

Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code starts out without the main character in point, but instead starts out with one of the minor characters named Silas, who apprehends Jacques Sauniere, a museum night guard, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Sauniere tells him, Silas shoots him and leaves him to die. However, Sauniere lied to Silas about the Grail’s location. Realizing that he has only a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Sauniere paints a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and drags himself into the center of the circle, re-creating the position of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
A police detective named Jerome Collet, calls Robert Langdon, the main character, and a professor of symbology, and asks him to come to the Louvre to try to interpret the scene.
As Langdon arrives, an agent of the department of cryptology and Sauniere’s granddaughter Sophie Neveu, also arrives at the crime scene and tells Langdon that he must call the American embassy. When Langdon calls the number Sophie gave him, he reaches her answering service. The message warns Langdon that he is in danger and should meet Sophie in the bathroom at the Louvre, where the crime scene took place.
When he arrives in the bathroom, Sophie shows Langdon that Fache is noting his movements with a tracking device (unknown to Langdon until now). Sophie throws the device out the window onto a passing truck, tricking the police into thinking that Langdon has escaped from the Louvre. Sophie also gives Langdon a secret message.
Langdon decodes the second and third lines in Sauniere's message: “Leonardo Da Vinci The Mona Lisa!” Sophie returns to the paintings to look for another clue. The police have returned to the Louvre as well, and they arrest Langdon. Sophie finds a key behind the Madonna of the Rocks. By using the painting as a hostage, she manages to disarm the police officer and get herself and Langdon out of the building. As...