The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown

Description

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 epicenter of the Rotunda.It is,he recognised,an ancient invitation, meant to beckon it’s recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom.

When Langdon’s revered mentor,Peter Solomon-a philanthropist and prominent mason-us brutally kidnapped,Langdon realises that his only hope of saving his friend’s life is to accept this mysterious summons and fol)ownit wherever it leads him.

Langdon funds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America’s most powerful 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 into a single impossible and inconceivable truth.