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Synopsis, from "The Lost Symbol"website:
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver a lecture in the US Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation... 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 never before seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.
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- Dan Brown's website
- "Dan Brown's interest in code-breaking and government intelligence agencies developed after one of his students at Phillips Exeter Academy was detained by the U.S. Secret Service following a night of political debate with friends via e-mail..." Read more from Dan Brown's biography on Biography Resource Center.
- View an interactive map of the Washington, D.C., locations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, courtesy of the Washington Post.
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