Chapters 9, 10 Summary

Captain Fache receives a call on his two-way radio cellular phone. He is notified that the cryptographer has arrived and most likely decrypted the numerical portion of Sauniere's message. Although Fache asks that the officer be detained at the command center, she makes her way to the crime scene. Sophie Neveu is the cryptographer and Fache does not like her at all, mostly because she is a woman. She shares that she has decrypted Sauniere's message, however, before that, she has an urgent message for Langdon that he must contact the U.S. Embassy at once. On a slip of paper, she provides him with the phone number and code. The phone number is to Sophie's personal answering machine; he punches in the code. Next, a message plays that he was in danger and to follow her instructions closely.

While Silas sits in...