The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
It is almost like a trilogy starting from the Angels and Demons, to The Da Vinci Code and then coming to the Lost Symbol which takes its main protagonist through a whirlwind world full of encryption and traditions of bygone eras. Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist meets his damsel in distress, Katherine, in a quest to free his mentor Peter Solomon, who by the way has not been brought up in the novels before and is also the elder brother of Katherine, from the clutches of the only apparent villain in the story, Mal’akh.
Dan Brown, who is very often mocked at for his writing skills despite being one of the most sought after authors, does not fail to amuse you with his literature abilities in this novel. Using inane dialogues which required no real spurts of creativity, the interactions between the characters are less than interesting. What keeps your rapt attention is the whole maze of the gallows that the characters have to find their way through in the underbelly of Washington D.C. to unravel the “Great Ancient Mysteries” of a sect called the Masons who are an elusive and exclusive group of men as well as women who yield much power in the world. To keep the secret in tact so that the world does not end if the knowledge gets out of this privileged group, Brown gets his main characters to extract assistance from many other intellectually canny individuals throughout the story who help in their own right to put the pieces of the mystery together and to help find Peter Solomon.
A novel which took six years to write in undoubtedly a long read but loses you in between except for the fact that you want to understand why the villain is so hung up on revealing the great secret of the Masons. The book is a good investment, if you are a fan of Dan Brown, unless you have found this online jewellery shop that sells pretty baubles at the same price.
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