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 Dan Brown: Online puzzles set for new thriller's promotion
"The Lost Symbol" by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown is due for release in September.
On Tuesday, Publisher Doubleday announced that the novel will be preceded by a summer-long procession of "codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms" and other daily teasers on Facebook and Twitter.
"The Lost Symbol" is the author's first novel since "The Da Vinci Code." It has taken him more than six years to pen a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" that has above eighty million copies in print.
The book features Harvard Professor Robert Langdon for the third time. The storyline has been kept under tight wraps but it is believed to focus on freemasonry, with the lost symbol of the title a reference to a ciphered pictogram in an ancient book called The Key of Solomon.
The American cover features a picture of the Capitol with a red wax seal against a background of symbols, while the cover for Britain and Australia has the Capitol and a key with a square and a compass.
The film version of the first Langdon book Angels and Demons, starring Tom Hanks, topped the UK and US box offices earlier this year and has earned nearly 310 million pounds and 500 million dollars respectively. |
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