He has perfected the breathless art of the cliffhanger chapter, the ooky villain, the histor ish backdrop. At this point, it’s already clear what Brown can do with the genre. One is still excited - one must be Doubleday is printing a whopping 4 million copies - but the anticipation feels different. Tuesday marks the release of “ Inferno,” Brown’s newest Langdon installment. “The Lost Symbol” seemed of the moment and of particularly heightened American interest, set as it was in D.C. It’s been four years now since our last encounter with Robert Langdon, the be-tweeded hero who has Da Vinci’d and Demon-ed his way through three previous Dan Brown page-rippers.īrown’s last book, “ The Lost Symbol,” came out in 2009, smack in the vortex of a Brownado - a whirling era of “Da Vinci Code” European tour packages and Tom Hanks’s second cinematic turn as the lank-haired Harvard symbologist.
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