TY - BOOK AU - Brown, Dan. TI - The lost symbol SN - 9780385504225 AV - FIC .B76 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday & Company, Inc. KW - ADVENTURE STORIES -- DETECTIVE -- MYSTERY -- SUSPENSE -- THRILLER -- FICTION N2 - As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom ER -