The Lost Symbol
Featuring Robert Langdon
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4.1 • 308 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS
“Impossible to put down.” —The New York Times
“Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” —Los Angeles Times
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom.
When his mentor, Peter Solomon—a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth . . . all under the watchful eye of a terrifying enemy.
Look for more Robert Langdon novels:
The Da Vinci Code
Inferno
Origin
The Secret of Secrets
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A deranged man’s quest to become a god sends symbologist Robert Langdon—hero of The Da Vinci Code—on a deadly mission. A severed hand has been found in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, tattooed with ominous markings—and the only man who can decipher what they mean is Dan Brown’s brilliant, globe-trotting hero. Before long, he bumps up against a dangerous figure who’s holding Langdon’s mentor hostage in the hopes of gaining access to the mysteries at the heart of Freemasonry lore. Set after the events of Brown’s megabestseller, this heart-pounding novel is a thrilling puzzle of mythology, science, and real-life history. We get one page-turning cliff-hanger after another as clues turn up among Washington’s most iconic landmarks. If you weren’t already obsessed with Brown’s world of dark cabals and secret societies, you will be now.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After scores of Da Vinci Code knockoffs, spinoffs, copies and caricatures, Brown has had the stroke of brilliance to set his breakneck new thriller not in some far-off exotic locale, but right here in our own backyard. Everyone off the bus, and welcome to a Washington, D.C., they never told you about on your school trip when you were a kid, a place steeped in Masonic history that, once revealed, points to a dark, ancient conspiracy that threatens not only America but the world itself. Returning hero Robert Langdon comes to Washington to give a lecture at the behest of his old mentor, Peter Solomon. When he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for his lecture, he finds, instead of an audience, Peter's severed hand mounted on a wooden base, fingers pointing skyward to the Rotunda ceiling fresco of George Washington dressed in white robes, ascending to heaven. Langdon teases out a plethora of clues from the tattooed hand that point toward a secret portal through which an intrepid seeker will find the wisdom known as the Ancient Mysteries, or the lost wisdom of the ages. A villain known as Mal'akh, a steroid-swollen, fantastically tattooed, muscle-bodied madman, wants to locate the wisdom so he can rule the world. Mal'akh has captured Peter and promises to kill him if Langdon doesn't agree to help find the portal. Joining Langdon in his search is Peter's younger sister, Kathleen, who has been conducting experiments in a secret museum. This is just the kickoff for a deadly chase that careens back and forth, across, above and below the nation's capital, darting from revelation to revelation, pausing only to explain some piece of wondrous, historical esoterica. Jealous thriller writers will despair, doubters and nay-sayers will be proved wrong, and readers will rejoice: Dan Brown has done it again.
