The Prologue of this book is very short and shows a creative beginning. It starts with a man named Jacques Saunier who was running from an albino man with a gun. To try to protect himself, Jacques was in a museum and took a painting off the wall. This triggered the alarm and brought bars down so the albino man could not get to him. Although they were separated by bars, they could still communicate. So, the albino man ended up asking him were 'it' is. Jacques tried lying but that didn't work because three other men approached by the albino said the same and died. He ended up getting shot. The rest of these pages showed that he had a secret and did not want it to be lost with him and that he had to find a way to pass it on.
In chapter 1, a man named Robert Langdon was sleeping in his hotel in Paris when the concierge called and said that someone was waiting to meet him. Langdon thought that it was someone mad at him from the speech he gave that day, so he told the concierge to send the man away. Later, his phone rang again and Robert found out that it was the French Police. and they went to his room and asked him about his plans to meet Jacques after his speech that didn't happen. Langdon said that Jacques never showed up so he just went back to his room. After that, the Police told him that he died and the picture showed that Jacques' body was arranged in a specific way to show a symbol.
In chapter 2, we find out the albino man's name, Silas. He ends up going to his bedroom and calling a man that he calls The Teacher. He told 'The Teacher' that he had killed Jacques and that him and his three other companions that died all said that the keystone that Silas and his men were looking for was at the Church of Saint Suplice. So, The Teacher told him to go there and get it immediately. But before he left he punished himself by whipping himself. He said that it was for his sins.
In chapter 3, Langdon went with the Police to the museum. He talked about the structures there like the pyramid and also met Bezu Fache, the police captain.
In chapter 4, the captain took Langdon to Jacques body. There, Langdon finds out that Jacques was a connoisseur of goddess iconography which is the worship of the feminine. What I didn't say before was that Langdon specializes in icons and symbols which is one of the reasons of why he is there.
In chapter 5, a man named Bishop Manuel Aringarosa, in charge of a group called Opus Dei, left New York and went to Rome. When he was in the plane he took a call and found out that Silas found out that the keystone was in the Church of Saint Suplice. So, Manuel said that he would find a way to let Silas get access to the church. The rest of this chapter was about Silas past and his joining of the church.
In chapter 6, Langdon was telling Fache that Jacques arranged his body in a certain way for a reason. He also explained that he drew a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood and that this sign symbolizes the Venus goddess. They also found out that he had a glow in the dark marker and found that Jacques left a message. They had no idea what it meant and Fache said that is why they needed him. At the end of this chapter, Lieutenant Collet set up a recording system to record the conversation going on between Langdon and Fache.
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