Présentation de l'éditeur
'I cannot recall a more dangerous and tangled puzzle than the one I was called upon to solve in the New Year of 1497…'
An anonymous Soothsayer has written to Rome suggesting that Leonardo da Vinci has encrypted a secret, blasphemous code in his painting The Last Supper. Father Agostino Leyre, an Inquisitor and expert in cryptography, is dispatched by the Pope to the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie to decode the painting. Should he succeed, da Vinci will face trial for heresy - and certain execution.
Full of dark surprises, The Secret Supper depicts a deadly game of wits between the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci and the man intent on uncovering the shattering secrets behind one of the most famous Christian masterpieces.
Revue de presse
'THE SECRET SUPER, which has sold more than 500,000 copies in Europe, is set to rival THE DA VINCI CODE for conspiracy theories about one of the most famous figures in art history' NEWS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 5/02
'Another religous conspiracy thriller -- THE SECRET SUPPER looks set to sweep the world' GUARDIAN 6/02
'[this] has sold 500,000 copies and is being fought over by studios eager to emulate THE DA VINCI CODE phenomenon' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 5/02
'Javier Sierra, unlike Dan Brown, is familar with the Catholic Church and does not calumniate its institutions . . . THE SECRET SUPPER asks more of its reader than THE DA VINCI CODE does' TABLET 4/2
'It differs [from Dan Brown] in featuring not present-day investigators, but a monkish sleuth in Italy in 1497. Agostino Leyre, a Dominican inquisitor, is sent to Milan to look into rumours of a heretical movement whose initiates may include the Duke of Milan and Da Vinci, working on The Last Supper ... the passages on art are provocative and absorbing' SUNDAY TIMES 18/06
Quatrième de couverture
It takes a genius to hide a secret in plain view
'I cannot recall a more dangerous and tangled puzzle than the one I was called upon to solve in the New Year of 1497…'
An anonymous Soothsayer has written to Rome suggesting that Leonardo da Vinci has encrypted a secret, blasphemous code in his painting The Last Supper. Father Agostino Leyre, an Inquisitor and expert in cryptography, is dispatched by the Pope to the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie to decode the painting. Should he succeed, da Vinci will face trial for heresy - and certain execution.
Full of dark surprises, The Secret Supper depicts a deadly game of wits between the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci and the man intent on uncovering the shattering secrets behind one of the most famous Christian masterpieces. After finishing this novel, you'll never see The Last Supper in the same way again.
'The Secret Supper looks set to sweep the world' Guardian
'Set to rival The Da Vinci Code for conspiracy theories about one of the most famous figures in art history' Sunday Telegraph
Biographie de l'auteur
Javier Sierra lives in Spain, where he is a celebrated radio and television presenter, and author.
