In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world’s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling–a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
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The novel by Dan Brown is a thriller and revolves around a computer program named Digital Fortress. The key characters in the novel are Susan Fletcher, Trevor Strathmore, Takado, and Dave Becker. An ardent admirer of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code; I expected the same magic in this one. But
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Dan Brown’s new book / novel – “The Solomon Key” is promising to hit the book shelves as a top best seller if the enormous success of his previous works are anything to go by. His last novel The Da Vinci Code is now credited with selling over 61 million books across the globe, making Dan Brown one of the most successful authors the world has ever seen.
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The Author
John Grisham is one of the prominent writers in the contemporary Pulp Fiction arena. His forte is ‘legal thrillers’ and is the undisputed master in it. After majoring in Accounting and graduating in law, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade, before he took to writing.
Though his first book, A Time to Kill was not a great success in its first outing in 1987, his second book, The Firm became the best-selling novel of 1991. All of his subsequent novels have become best sellers and six of his novels have been turned into movies. He has churned out one book a year and The King of Torts is his latest book published in February 2003.
The Story
The theme of the book is about how greedy-mass-tort-lawyers “operate” in class action suits filed against big corporations. It exposes how the whole “scheme” of settlement works and who actually makes money out of the deal.
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The Da Vinci Code is a primarily a detective novel by Dan Brown. It is regarding the mystery surrounding the death of a curator. Robert Langdon, a symbologist sets out to find the murderer and the mystery involved. He is later joined by Sophie, who is the victim’s granddaughter. They unlock many secrets and codes to reach the final destination.
The story revolves around the concepts of the Holy Grail of Christianity, the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, and the belief that Jesus was married to Mary Magdelene and had a child with her. The curator, Jacques Saunière, is believed to possess the key to accessing the Holy Grail. The anti character in the novel gets him murdered to possess the key, but fails. The curator while dying, leaves behind clues, which he believes can only be solved by Robert and Sophie. The story actually shows us how they go about solving each puzzle. The puzzles are about the religion and the works of Da Vinci. Another reference to Da Vinci’s paintings are when the ‘hidden concepts’ of feminity are being detailed.
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Alfred Hitchcock was born to a poultry dealer in London on August 13 1899.
By the time he was done with life and cinema in 1980, he rewrote the rules of suspense in film making, and paved the way for directors like Manoj Night Shyamalan to start sneaking cameo appearances of themselves in their own films. Not bad for a guy who began by designing title cards for silent films!
From working with screenwriters — who permitted him to direct some scenes of the film that didn’t include actors — he then moved up the ladder to the post of an assistant director and then director.
The list of successes to his credit simply grew from there
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