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The Lost Symbol (Hardback)

Brown, Dan

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Six years in the writing, The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, is once again called into action.

Expertly researched and written with breakneck pace, The Lost Symbol once again demonstrates why Dan Brown is the world's bestselling thriller writer.

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Categories: Fiction, Fiction Crime & Thrillers

Authors

Brown, Dan

Barcode

9780593054277

Binding

Hardback

Blurb

WHAT WAS LOST WILL BE FOUND...Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most historic city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.
A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight...

Country

South Africa

Country of Publication

Date of Publication

25 April 2009

ISBN

9780593054277

Language

English

Number of Pages

528

Publisher

Random House

Subjects

Crime & Thriller
AF:Thriller

Title

The Lost Symbol

Year

2009

Product Reviews (4)

Gary Green

I agree
The book was good to a point and i suspected the ABYSS reference about the Liquid would come about to ensure a hollywood 'made for the movies' happy ending.

Christopher Vorster

What happend? I really enjoyed his other four books, but this was a very predictable and sometimes annoying read. There wasn't that break neck pace that made me enjoy Angels & Demons or the "Wow" moments like in Deception Point & Da Vinci Code.

Andrew Christie

SPOILERS contained - do not read unless you have read the book.

Well now.

I read "The Da Vinci Code" and really enjoyed it. Then I read his other novels and enjoyed them too.

And I was really enjoying "The Lost Symbol" until I realised that nothing of substance was happening. His main protagonist, Robert Langdon, has the depth of tissue paper and yet and lectures smugly until I wanted to blow my nose on HIM. Unfortunately, when one uses a tissue character with a plot of even less substance, the novel is left with scant enjoyment.

I suspect, indeed I hope, that the ending of the book was not written by Dan Brown. I suspect that it was either written by slightly backward three-year old, or by a fired Mills and Boon writer; it is so simplistic, anticlimactic and full of sweet, sugary sentiments that I almost switched the tv on to watch Oprah.

And yet...and yet... the thriller does tick along at a rapid rate, and it threw in some really interesting facts. It did keep me reading, it did make me think; and some of the thoughts weren't even "I can't believe I spent so much money on this".

Michelle Lotter

It was very predictable, although it still kept you. Maybe we expect more from Dan Brown, but it is still a good read, because his research is absolutely brilliant and you learn a lot about Free Masonry, the Illuminati, Symbolism. So yes, the store is average, but the knowledge gained is extremely great.