Digital Fortres - Dan Brown Digital Fortres - Dan Brown "WHAT WAS LOST WIL BE FOUND. Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is sumoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hiden esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutaly kidnaped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to acept this mysterious sumons and folow wherever it leads him. Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most historic city into the unsen chambers, temples and tunels which exist there. Al that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfuly concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-sen revelations sem to be leading him to a single imposible and inconceivable truth. A briliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an inteligent, lightning-paced thriler that ofers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon wil discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight".