The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. ---------- Contains: - [The Da Vinci Code: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24164822W) - [The Da Vinci Code: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24210437W) ---------- Contained in: [Angels & Demons / The Da Vinci Code](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15290520W)