Dan Brown

Born on June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire, author Dan Brown attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Amherst College. After initially attempting to become a musician, Brown published Digital Fortress in 1998. His next novel, Angels & Demons (2000), introduced “professor of symbology” Robert Langdon, but it was his fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code (2003), that propelled Brown to fame as a best-selling author. The Da Vinci Code was adapted for film in 2006, with Tom Hanks in the role of Robert Langdon, and Brown continued the popular series with The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017).

`Impossible to put down . . . Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story’ New York Times, A mysterious invitation brings Robert Langdon to Washington DC. There, he is presented with a sequence of bloody clues which he must unravel if he is to prevent a terrible plan. But all is not as it seems in this dangerous city – an ancient organisation will reassert its power once more. The only man standing in its way – Robert Langdon.

A case study in suspense’ Washington Post
A rare object has been found deep in the ice at the Arctic Circle. And Rachel Sexton is called to verify this game-changing discovery.
But evidence of tampering at the site changes everything. Fleeing for her life, Rachel’s only hope of survival is to find answers.
But the truth is the most shocking deception of all.

A new master of smart thrills’ People magazine
Susan Fletcher has been summoned to the one of the world’s most secretive organisations, the National Security Agency. Their unbeatable code-breaking machine has been hacked.
Susan is supposed to be able to help. But instead she uncovers the truth. They are being held hostage.
Can she protect her country from the most deadly of enemies?

A breathless, real-time adventure’ San Francisco Chronicle A famous scientist is found dead, a strange symbol burned brutally into his skin. Many miles away in Rome, the world’s cardinals assemble to elect a new Pope. Somewhere in the Vatican, a bomb of vast power begins its countdown. Working out the puzzle against the clock, can Robert Langdon stop it detonating?

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci – and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever…

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon’s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secret that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.
With only a few lines from Dante’s Inferno to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the Renaissance’s most celebrated artworks to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat. . .

In keeping with his trademark style, Brown interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them.