The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a fiction novel, that combines many historic facts, myths and mysteries, creating a very interesting puzzle, around one of the best hidden secrets: the Holy Grail.
The novel in fact is based on puzzels, adpating very well the described mind of Jacques Saunière, the just murdered curator of the Lovre Museum. But before he died he figured out a way to leave clues around him with the firm conviction that only his granddaughter, Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, can untangle.
Langdon and Neveu have a thrilling time solving the puzzle wich leads them to understand a mystery that has been hidden by a secret society for two thoustand years…. but that has clues all over.
It was a very polemic book, and there are even books written as a response to it, the most polemic issue is that talks about the idea of Mary Magadalane as wife of … guess whom? but also the way it links many ideas that have been in the air for years.