For Ages
12 to 99

Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller is now available for a new generation of readers. This young adult adaptation is the perfect way to get ready for Origin, the latest novel featuring the character Robert Langdon. It will remind fans everywhere why the New York Times calls The Da Vinci Code “blockbuster perfection.” 

Includes over twenty color photos showing important locations, landmarks, and artwork, taking readers from Paris to London and beyond!
    
The greatest conspiracy of the past two thousand years is about to unravel.
 
Robert…

An Excerpt fromThe Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation)

Robert Langdon awoke slowly.

A telephone was ringing in the darkness—­a tinny, un­familiar ring. He fumbled for the bedside lamp and turned it on. Squinting at his surroundings, he saw a plush bedroom with antique eighteenth-­century furniture, hand-­frescoed walls, and a colossal mahogany four-­poster bed.

Where am I?

The jacquard bathrobe hanging on his bedpost bore the monogram Hotel Ritz Paris.

Slowly, the fog began to lift. Sitting up, he gazed tiredly into the full-­length mirror across the room. The man staring back at him was a stranger—­tousled and weary, his usually sharp blue eyes hazy and drawn. A dark stubble was shrouding his strong jaw, and around his temples the gray highlights were advancing, making their way deeper into his thicket of coarse black hair.

He picked up the receiver. “Hello?”

“Monsieur Langdon?” a man’s voice said. “I hope I have not interrupted you?”

Dazed, Langdon looked at the bedside clock. It was 12:32 a.m. He had been asleep only an hour; he felt like the dead.

“This is the concierge, monsieur. I apologize for this intrusion, but you have a visitor.