The Da Vinci Code

Paris. The dead of night. In the Louvre, an aged curator, Jacques Saunière, lies dying at the hands of a masochistic hulking albino who wears a spiked cilice belt around his thigh in constant penance.Later that same night. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned by the French police to the Louvre. There is a cipher next to the dead, naked body. There is also pretty cryptologist Sophie Neveu. She and Langdon team up to solve the enigmatic riddles surrounding the murder that eventually lead