In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas, who is working on behalf of someone known only as the Teacher, apprehends Jacques Saunière, the museum’s curator, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. 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. Critics often point to the fact that these ideas are derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book has markedly provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The novel explores the theory that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the Saunière is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood. Their race to discover the closely guarded secret held by Saunière uncovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. They are stunned to discover bizarre riddles that lead them to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, seemingly left by the museum's late curator, Jacques Saunière minutes before his death.
It follows Harvard professor and symbologist Robert Langdon and the gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris' Louvre Museum. The Da Vinci Code is the 2003 novel written by Dan Brown. "The Da Vinci Code is simply an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate and suggests that the Book may be used to "as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith". Mystery, detective fiction, conspiracy fiction, thriller
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