Brown, Dan,  1964- <br/><br/>
The lost symbol / 
Dan Brown 
 - London:  Corgi Books,  2009 
 - 669 p.:  ill.;  18 cm. 
 - Robert Langdon. bk3 .
<br/><br/> Robert Langdon flies to Washington after an urgent invitation to speak in the Capitol building. The invitation appears to have come from a friend with copper-bottomed Masonic connections, Peter Solomon. But Langdon has been tricked: Solomon has, in fact, been kidnapped, and (echoing the grisly opening of the last book) a macabre mutilation plunges Langdon into a tortuous quest. His friend's severed hand lies in the Capitol building, positioned to point to a George Washington portrait that shows the father of his country as a pagan deity. The ruthless criminal nemesis here is another terrifying figure in Brown's gallery of grotesques: Mal'akh, a powerfully built eunuch with a body festooned with tattoos. Mal'akh is seeking a Masonic pyramid that possesses a formidable supernatural power, and a pulse-pounding hunt is afoot, with Langdon stalled rather than aided by the CIA. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780552161237 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Langdon, Robert (fictitious character)--Fiction.<br/>Washington (D. C.)--Fiction.<br/>Washington--Ficción.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3552  / B877lo 2009