Freitag, 20. Januar 2012

Dan Brown - The lost symbol

Robert Langdon flies to Washington after an urgent invitation to speak in the Capitol building. The invitation appears to have come from a friend with copper-bottomed Masonic connections, Peter Solomon. But Langdon has been tricked: Solomon has, in fact, been kidnapped, and (echoing the grisly opening of the last book) a macabre mutilation plunges Langdon into a tortuous quest. His friend’s severed hand lies in the Capitol building, positioned to point to a George Washington portrait that shows the father of his country as a pagan deity. The ruthless criminal nemesis here is another terrifying figure in Brown’s gallery of grotesques: Mal’akh, a powerfully built eunuch with a body festooned with tattoos. Mal’akh is seeking a Masonic pyramid that possesses a formidable supernatural power, and a pulse-pounding hunt is afoot, with Langdon stalled rather than aided by the CIA.

2 Kommentare:

  1. Erneut ein typischer Robert-Langdon-Roman mit allem was dazu gehoert - da duerfen leider dann auch die etwas langatmigen Vortraege ueber Freimaurerei und dergleichen nicht fehlen. Ansonsten aber sehr spannend!

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  2. Stimmt, teilweise etwas oberlehrerhaft, ansonsten aber mit ordentlichem Tempo - auch wenn es mir hier und da schon etwas zu schnell ging.

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