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Here you can see a list of books by Dan Brown and films based on them.
| Title |
Main Characters |
Release |
| Digital Fortress |
Susan Fletcher / David Becker |
1998 |
| Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and head of the National Security Agency's cryptography division, finds herself faced with an unbreakable code resistant to brute-force attacks by the NSA's 3 million processor supercomputer. The code is written by Japanese cryptographer Ensei Tankado, a sacked employee of the NSA, who is displeased with the agency's intrusion into people's privacy. Tankado auctions the algorithm on his website, threatening that his accomplice, "North Dakota (e-mail address being NDakota)", will release the algorithm for free if he dies. Tankado is found dead in Seville, Spain. Fletcher, along with her fiancé, David Becker, a skilled linguist with eidetic memory, must find a solution to stop the spread of the code. |
| Angels and Demons |
Robert Langdon / Vittoria Vetra |
2000 |
| It introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the principal character of Brown's subsequent, better-known novel The Da Vinci Code. The story involves a conflict between an ancient group, the Illuminati, and the Catholic Church. It is credited with being the first novel to contain ambigrams. |
| Deception Point |
Rachel Sexton |
2001 |
| Deception Point opens with NASA personnel making a startling discovery. An ancient meteorite is found buried within an Arctic glacier. Samples taken from this meteorite show that there are fossils of some Isopod-like life forms inside it, raising speculation that humans are not alone in the universe. To address this question, several civilian scientists are dispatched to the site in order to investigate the origin of the fossils and verify NASA's findings. Before any official announcement can be made, however, one of the scientists dies under mysterious circumstances. The remaining scientists quickly realize that all is not what it appears to be as they struggle to separate truth from deceit. They soon realize that the meteorite is indigenous (the "alien bugs" are in fact fossils of terrestrial giant isopods) and was inserted into the glacier by drilling beneath the frozen sea. |
| The Da Vinci Code |
Robert Langdon / Sophie Neveu |
2003 |
| This book concerns the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. The interpretation of hidden messages inside Leonardo's famous works, (which relate to the concept of the Sacred feminine) including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery. The main conflict in the novel revolves around the solution to two mysteries: What secret was Saunière protecting that led to his murder? Who is the evil mastermind behind his murder and the murder of the three other sénéchaux? |
| The Solomon Key |
Robert Langdon |
2007 |
