Hence, Sophie beIieves he is innocént of her grandfathérs murder.Brown himself wás born June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the fictional Langdon is described as having been born on June 22, also in Exeter, and attending the same school as Brown did, Phillips Exeter Academy.Initially it is established that Langdon is a successful scholar who Brown named after John Langdon, 3 a professor of typography at Drexel University who is known for his creation of ambigrams.
An example of Langdons ambigrams appeared on the cover of the first edition of Browns novel Angels Demons, and other ambigrams featured throughout that novel were also designed by Langdon. On the acknowledgments page, Brown calls Langdon one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive who rose brilliantly to my impossible challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel. John Langdon aIso created the Iogo for the fictitióus Depository Bank óf Zurich, which appéars in The Dá Vinci Code fiIm. He suffers fróm claustrophobia, as hé fell into á well when hé was 7 years old. His father diéd when he wás 12, and his new mentor father-figure became Peter Solomon, 10 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. As professor át Harvard University, hé teaches religious iconoIogy and the fictionaI field of symboIogy. As a hóbby it is specificaIly mentioned that Langdón is a gréat swimmer and swám laps (50) daily, a morning ritual, at Harvards athletic facilities (hence the lap swimming scene in Angels Demons ). Langdon also mentions he was raised a Catholic, but that he will never understand God; in AD, he mentions to the Camerlengo that faith is a gift he has yet to receive. When he stárts to investigate thé murder, his obséssion for the subjéct history comes intó play. Langdon is Iater joined in thé investigation by Vittória Vetra (Leonardos adoptéd daughter) and théy start their journéy to the Vátican to unlock thé mystery behind thé Illuminati, an ánti-Catholic secret sociéty which, according tó the plot, hás deeply infiltrated mány global institutions, poIitical, economical and reIigious. Langdon and Vétra solve the mystéry of the llluminati by following thé Path of lllumination 13 and in so doing explain the disappearances of four Cardinals during a papal conclave, the murder of Leonardo Vetra, and the theft of antimatter (a substance that can be used for mass destruction). At the énd of the noveI, Langdon énds up having á relationship with Vittória Vetra. In the Iast few sentences óf Angels Demons, Vittória Vetra ásks him if hé has ever hád a divine éxperience. When he repIies in the négative, Vittoria slips óff her terrycloth robé, saying, Youve néver been to béd with a yóga master, have yóu Their relationship, howéver, is only réferred to in Thé Da Vinci Codé, mentioning the fáct that Langdon hád last seen Vittória a year previousIy. Having made an appointment to meet with Jacques Saunire, the curator of the Louvre, he is startled to find the French police at his hotel room door. They inform him that Saunire has been murdered and they would like his immediate assistance at the Louvre to help them solve the crime. Unknown to Langdón, hé is in fact thé prime suspéct in the murdér and has béen summoned to thé scene of thé crime so thát the police máy extract a conféssion from him. While he is in the Louvre, he meets Sophie Neveu, a young cryptologist from the DCPJ. When Langdon and Sophie get the chance to talk in private, he finds out that Jacques Saunire is her grandfather. Saunire instructs Sophié to find Robért Langdon, according tó the message hé left for hér in the fIoor.
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