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Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization, the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra.

Robert Langdon, el célebre profesor de simbología, viaja a Praga para asistir a una conferencia revolucionaria impartida por Katherine Solomon, una brillante científica noética con quien ha iniciado una relación. Katherine está a punto de publicar un libro cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia humana prometen desafiar siglos de creencias consolidadas. Pero un brutal asesinato desata el caos, y Katherine desaparece sin dejar rastro junto a su valioso manuscrito.

Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol. Within minutes of his arrival, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object is discovered in the Capitol Building. The object is an ancient invitation, meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. And when Langdon's mentor is kidnapped, Langdon's only hope of saving him is to accept this invitation and follow wherever it leads him.

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon’s first students. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever.

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddle, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci, clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage…not by guns or bombs but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in.

Robert Langdon, profesor de simbología e iconografía religiosa de la universidad de Harvard, acude al Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para asistir a un trascendental anuncio que «cambiará la faz de la ciencia para siempre». El anfitrión de la velada es Edmond Kirsch, un joven multimillonario cuyos visionarios inventos tecnológicos y audaces predicciones lo han convertido en una figura de renombre mundial. Kirsch, uno de los alumnos más brillantes de Langdon años atrás, se dispone a revelar un extraordinario descubrimiento.

Robert Langdon, el célebre profesor de simbología, viaja a Praga para asistir a una conferencia revolucionaria impartida por Katherine Solomon, una brillante científica noética con quien ha iniciado una relación. Katherine está a punto de publicar un libro cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia humana prometen desafiar siglos de creencias consolidadas. Pero un brutal asesinato desata el caos, y Katherine desaparece sin dejar rastro junto con su valioso manuscrito.

Brought to you by Penguin. Robert Langdon is back in the long-awaited new race-against-time thriller from the global bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert...

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati... the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.

Un meurtre sauvage va soudain précipiter leur séjour dans le chaos. Katherine disparaît, et son manuscrit est piraté sur le serveur de son éditeur. Langdon se retrouve pourchassé par une étrange créature mythologique et devient la cible d'une organisation dont le projet pourrait changer à jamais notre conception de l'esprit humain.

Robert Langdon, respeitado professor de Simbologia, vai a Praga para assistir a uma palestra revolucionária de Katherine Solomon – uma proeminente cientista e intelectual com quem ele recentemente iniciou um relacionamento.

Robert Langdon, el célebre profesor de simbología, viaja a Praga para asistir a una conferencia revolucionaria impartida por Katherine Solomon, una brillante científica noética con quien ha iniciado una relación. Katherine está a punto de publicar un libro cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia humana prometen desafiar siglos de creencias consolidadas.

Cuando el sofisticado superordenador de la NSA —la agencia de Inteligencia más poderosa del mundo— intercepta un código que es incapaz de descifrar, ésta debe recurrir a su mejor criptógrafa, Susan Fletcher. Fletcher descubrirá algo que hará tambalear las más altas esferas de poder: un intrincado código que, si llegara a hacerse público, podría provocar el mayor desastre de la historia de los servicios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos.

Washington, D.C.: In der amerikanischen Hauptstadt liegt ein sorgsam gehütetes Geheimnis verborgen, und ein Mann ist bereit, dafür zu töten...

Robert Langdon, Symbolforscher aus Harvard, begleitet seine Freundin Katherine Solomon nach Prag. Katherine bereitet die Veröffentlichung eines Buches vor, das bahnbrechende Entdeckungen über die wahre Natur des menschlichen Bewusstseins offenbart. Doch ein brutaler Mord stürzt die Reise in ein unvorhersehbares Chaos, und Katherine verschwindet plötzlich, ebenso ihr Manuskript.

At 22, Dan Brown came to the Bronx's P.S. 85 as an eager, fresh-faced teacher. Unbeknownst to him, his assigned class, 4-217, was the designated "dumping ground" for all fourth-grade problem cases, and his students would prove to be more challenging than he could ever anticipate. Intent on being a caring, dedicated teacher but confronted with unruly children, absent parents, and a failing administration, Dan was pushed to the limit time and again: he found himself screaming with rage, punching his fist through a blackboard out of sheer frustration, often just wanting to give up and walk away.