Robert Langdon is back in the long-awaited new race-against-time thriller from the global bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. With thanks to Jo for the below review!
Well Dan Brown is seriously back after not releasing any books for the last eight or nine years. What a book this was!
Dan must have done so much research – it really shows with some great location descriptions, mainly Prague. Some really intriguing concepts about how our brains work are explained, well enough to leave you questioning if this is true or not.
The plot is very, very good. Just as you think a plot line has been resolved off the book goes in a different direction, proving you wrong. More conspiracy, more plot twists and more exciting plot lines. I think the best description of how I felt is that I felt like I was on a roller coaster- a slower build then you go hurtling into the plot, an occasional breather then off you go again at a very fast rate. A 5* read for me.
About the Book
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them.
This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.
About The Author
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin and The Secret of Secrets. Three of his Robert Langdon novels have been adapted for the screen by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks. They have all been international blockbusters.
Dan Brown is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he has taught English and Creative Writing. He lives in New England.
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