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stepping toward him, Faches primary suspect in this murder is you. Langdon was braced for the words, and yet they still sounded utterly ridiculous. According to Sophie, Langdon had been called to the Louvre tonight not as a symbologist but rather as a suspect and was currently the unwitting target of one of DCPJs favorite interrogation methodssurveillance cachéea deft deception in which the police calmly invited a suspect to a crime scene and interviewed him in hopes he would get nervous and mistakenly incriminate himself. Look in your jackets left pocket, Sophie said. Youll find proof they are watching you. Langdon f ray ban metal frame elt his apprehension rising. Look in my pocket? It sound ray ban metal frame ed like some kind of cheap magic trick. Just look. Bewildered, Langdon reached his hand into his tweed jackets left
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8 million. The author of the pagesLeonardo da Vinci. The eighteen foliosnow known as Leonardos Codex Leicester after their famous owner, the Earl of Leicesterwere all that remained of one of Leonardos most fascinating notebooks: essays and drawings outlining Da Vincis progressive theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology. Langdon would never forget his reaction after waiting in line and finally viewing the priceless parchment. Utter letdown. The pages were unintelligible. Despite being beautifully preserved and written in an impeccably neat penmanshipcrimson ink on cream paperthe codex looke ray ban metal frame d like ray ban metal frame gibberish. At first Langdon thought he could not read them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an archaic Italian. But after studying them more closely, he realized he could
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