[Released today all around Australia!]
The Lost Symbol, formerly known under the working title as The Solomon Key, is a novel by American writer Dan Brown. The Lost Symbol is the third book to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, after 2000's Angels & Demons and 2003's The Da Vinci Code.
The book's story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Freemasonry. Langdon is summoned to Washington by his mentor, a Mason named Peter Solomon. When Solomon goes missing and a ghastly clue is left, Langdon is sent on a rapid chase through the concealed passages of the city. He joins forces with Solomon's daughter, Noetic scientist Dr. Katherine Solomon, while matching wits with a tattooed and brilliant villain who is in search of an ancient source of power.
A long-awaited book, "The Lost Symbol," isn't likely to raise hackles the way "The Da Vinci Code" did in 2003, but it is hair-raising and some Christians will take offense.
"The Second Coming is the coming of man - the moment when mankind finally builds the temple of his mind," a character proclaims at a critical moment.
Still, even if the plot relies heavily on the construct that all religions actually stand between man and God, that's been voiced many times before. And his reinterpretation of the Bible in "The Lost Symbol" is unlikely to cause anywhere near the outrage that met "The Da Vinci Code," in which Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon uncovers a marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene that the Catholic Church expunged from history.
As promised, "The Lost Symbol" is set in Washington, D.C., and uses Freemasonry as a springboard to intrigue. But even the Masons will have little to moan about. While Brown certainly uses their symbology and plays on the controversy surrounding the ancient order, the men in little white aprons come off looking good.
Except for one, that is. Standing in for the albino Silas of "The Code" as a grotesque is Mal'akh, whose muscled body is a tapestry of tattoos. You think you'd see him coming, but he's a demonic genius and certainly skilled in cosmetics. For his induction as a 33rd-degree Mason, the highest realm, he skillfully hides the evil his skin would reveal.
Read More
and Angels & Deamons too.. Waiting to get hold of this book as well 
So he writes American bogus. 
just because of "prey" when compared to "digital fortress"
