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This book began in a very suspenseful, secretive way. Jacques Sauniere is held at gun point and asked where "it" is. Sauniere is one of 4 "senechaux," determined to uphold a secret unknown to the reader. Information is given on this group: these four are the only ones who know an ancient secret, passed down through this illusive organization. After answering the gunman with a fake response that was corroborated by the other three senechaux the gunman had confronted, the gunman shoots Sauniere. In Sauniere's dying moments, he is determined to find a way to pass on the secret held by the brotherhood, all of whose members were about to be dead.