"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown: Summary.

In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas apprehends Jacques Sauniere, the museum's curator, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Sauniere tells him, Silas shoots him and leaves him to die. However, Sauniere has lied to Silas about the Grail's location. Realizing that he has only a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Sauniere paints a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and drags himself into the center of the circle, re-creating the position of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. He also leaves a code, a line of…