FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Man in the News: Dan Brown

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Man in the News: Dan Brown
On its first day on sale this week, The Lost Symbol, Mr Brown’s long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, sold more than 1m copies in English. Within 36 hours the book had achieved the highest lifetime sales of any adult hardback novel published in the UK.
The novel marks a departure for a writer whose plots have previously played out in European capitals. In The Lost Symbol, protagonist Robert Langdon returns home to Washington in search of Masonic secrets in the corridors of power – though such is the publicity surrounding the book, it is likely that few readers will be entirely innocent of the surprises that await.