The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible to see yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history?s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante?s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante?s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find...