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The Da Vinci Code - Source: Reuters
Author Dan Brown's follow-up to his global hit The Da Vinci Code
will be released in the United States, Britain and Canada on
September 15 and is titled The Lost Symbol, publisher Random House
said.
The Da Vinci Code has sold more than 70 million copies since its
2003 release and topped best-seller lists worldwide, outraging the
Vatican and some Catholics because of the fictional story lines
about conspiracy and the Catholic Church.
Five million copies of The Lost Symbol, which again features the
fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, will
be printed - the largest first print run in the history of Random
House.
"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey," Brown said
in a statement.
"Weaving five years of research into the story's 12-hour time
frame was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon's life clearly
moves a lot faster than mine."
No further details were given on the plot of the new book, which
will be published in the United States and Canada by Doubleday and
in Britain by Transworld Publishers, both imprints of Random House,
which is part of Bertelsmann AG.
Tom Hanks played Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da
Vinci Code, which earned more than US$750 million ($1.3 billion) at
the box office worldwide.
A film adaptation of Brown's earlier novel Angels and Demons, again starring Hanks as Langdon, is due to be released in May.
