“Impossible to put down…Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story” New York Times

Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His planned lecture is 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 longstanding 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 Dan Brown's most terrifying villain to date.

Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn.

Reviews

• “Impossible to put down…Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story”* New York Times
• "Unputdownable…Grip­ping…Jaw-dropping…The blockbuster read of the year' – News of the World
• “So compelling that several times I came close to a cardiac arrest…As perfectly constructed as the Washington architecture it escorts us around” Sunday Express
• “Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.”—Los Angeles Times
• “…the deadly chase 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.” Publishers Weekly
• “A fascinating pleasure. . . . Upends our usual assumptions about the world we think we know.” —Newsweek
• “A roaring ride. . . . A caper filled with puzzles, grids, symbols, pyramids and a secret that can bestow ‘unfathomable power.” -San Francisco Chronicle