Da Vinci Code was the first book of Dan Brown that I read. It’s a
continuation of Angels and Demons though I read it in the reverse order.
The book begins with a brutal murder investigation and ends revealing the
secret behind the Holy Grail. There is good suspense hidden in the series
of puzzles, deciphering one opens a door for the next one. As you reach the
end the book Dan explains how Leonardo Da Vinci has hidden a secret of the
ancient times in his art “The Last Supper” to pass the information to
future generation. Sophia the main female character in the story learns
about her family line. The book was well written however it didn’t just
reveal the murder mystery instead was based around divine mystery that had
questioned faith of the multitudes. Hence it was not received well by the
critics and there are an enormous controversies raised as the story is
against the Roman Catholic faith. I diplomatically overlooked the
conspiracies it carried and considered it just as another story book. As a
friction thriller I would definitely rate it high. There is a lot of
research and intelligence that has gone into writing this book, there are
enough suspense’s to hold the attention of the readers till the end. Right
from the Fibonacci series to the truth the Holy Grail carried, the
deciphering of the code was quite interesting.  The description of the
places was awesome. Some simple things were well portrayed, in one
incidence Vernet the President at Swiss Bank while trying to help Langdon
and Sophie disguising himself as a truck driver get caught because of an
expensive watch on his hand. “Do all drivers wear Rolexes?” This was the
question asked by the agent; there had been many such interesting
conversations throughout the book. It has good references to numerology,
ancient history, art and literature. I enjoyed reading it. According to me
it’s definitely an interesting friction however far from facts and the
mistake done is presenting a friction as fact that to on a topic concerning
divinity a faith prophesied by several millions of people, over thousands
of generations reasoning the book being extensively denounced.