The Lost Symbol

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What is lost
will be found.
/ ^^n this stunning follow-up to the global V / phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan V^ ^ Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storj'telling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying \dllain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object —artfully encoded with five sjTnbols—is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient in\itation one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

What is lost
will be found.
/ ^^n this stunning follow-up to the global V / phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan V^ ^ Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storj'telling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying \dllain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object —artfully encoded with five sjTnbols—is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient in\itation one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon—a prominent Mason and philanthropist —is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and
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never-before-seen locations-all of which s'^ to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivabS truth.
As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code ^xid Angels ^ Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.
Dan Brown is the author of The Da
Vinci Code, one of the most widely read novels of all time, as well as the international bestsellers Angels & Demons, Deception Point, and Digital Fortress. He lives in New England with his wife.
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