english book report (20 marks)

The book which I would like to talk about is the ‘Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown. The story starts off at the Louvre museum at Paris where Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the museum, is murdered. Alongside his body, the police found a set of complicated codes and symbols. Harvard Professor Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu are asked to solve the codes. As they begin to sort the codes, they find out that the codes relate to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci including including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. As Robert and Sophie work through the codes, they are impeded by Opus Dei, an organization within the Roman Catholic Church which wants to prevent them from breaking the codes and revealing the secrets which the codes hold but Robert and Sophie were determined to crack the codes and eventually,