Dan Brown

It has been six years since Dan Brown got his mega-selling and much talked about ¨The Da Vinci Code¨ published. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group has announced that the writer´s next book, ¨The Lost symbol¨ will be out in September this year.

¨The Lost Symbol¨ is a thriller that takes place over a period of 12 hours and features the symbolist Robert Langdon who had appeared in ¨he Da Vinci Code.¨ The first printing will release 5 million copies. It is the highest in the publisher´s history. Yet, it is much below the figure set by the seventh Harry potter book- a whopping 10 million. Brown´s previous novel

¨The Da Vinci Code¨ has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide. It was made into a film that starred Tom Hanks as Professor Langdon, and was released in 2006. The box office turnover was more than $700 million. The film adaptation of Brown´s ¨Angels & Demons¨, also starring Tom Hanks, is set to release in May.

About ¨The Lost Symbol¨ Dan Brown has said in a statement issued by his publisher on Monday ”This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey. Weaving five years of research into the story’s twelve-hour time frame was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon’s life clearly moves a lot faster than mine.”

By Monday night, ¨The Lost Symbol¨ was at no.1 position on Barnes & Noble.com, and close to the top 100 on Amazon.com. Both these sites have offered the book at a discounted price (40% discount to be precise). The announcement made by the publisher has revealed neither the plot of the story nor the location where it is set.

For years now, Dan Brown fans have been in suspense as the author produced no book. In 2004, his publisher Doubleday had hinted on his upcoming novel which was to be titled ¨The Solomon Key¨ and was about the Freemasons in Washington D.C. A guide to that novel was also published.

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