Following the success of The Da Vinci Code from 2003 Dan brown will publish his third novel featuring the Harvard University professor Robert Langdon, according to some reports the book will take place in Washington D. C. and will evolve around a Freemasons intrigue storyline.

According to Dan Brown’s American publishers the book is “a brilliant and compelling thriller” and very much well worth the wait, with an initial printing of 6,5 million copies, this will be the largest first printing for that house.

Dan Brown’s promotional website state that the hidden puzzles in The Da Vinci Code ‘s jacket gives some hints about The Lost Symbol storyline.

The author himself has stated that wirting this book has been a “strange and wonderful journey”, originally the book was going to be named The Solomon Key which led hordes of fans to talk about how to decipher the key and speculation about the plot, so the new title is as vague as possible, so the details of the novel can remain secret until officially published.

The new novel can be preordered here from Amazon at $15,63:

The Lost Symbol