When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - Philanthropist and prominent mason-is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friends life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most powerful city into the into the unseen chambers, temples and tunneis which exist there. All that was familiar is transformes into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before seen revelations seem to be leading him to a Single impossible and inconceivable truth. A Briliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intellegent, lightning -aced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than secret which hides in plain sight.