Dan Brown in another controversy?

Dan Brown fans will be happy to know that after six long years, and amidst all the media frenzy from the infringement raps that were resolved in his favor, the novelist is back in the news due to another controversy -- the September 15, 2009 release of the third installment of Robert Langdon's "Sherlock-esque" adventures, entitled The Lost Symbol. Research alone on this novel took five years. No wonder we were seeing less and less of Brown. Some were thinking that he fell into the abyss of writer's block.
Brown's life became filled with controversy with the publication of his, allegedly "blasphemous" book, The Da Vinci Code, centered on sects believing that Jesus had borne a son with Mary Magdalene. The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons savored commercial success, with the former adapted into a box-office blockbuster starring Tom Hanks and the latter promising to follow this May. When things seemed to settle down, a copyright infringement lawsuit put him once more in the spotlight, being "forced to testify in London and prepare an in-depth brief about his career, writing process and the fury he faced when promoting The Da Vinci Code." Aside from that, however, no significant activity, literary-wise, was seen from him. Until now.

Brown's five years of research went into 12 hours in the life of symbolist Robert Langdon, but Suzanne Herz from Doubleday publishing did not go into any more detail on the novel. More than likely it will again feature freemasons. But just to give you an idea of how hotly anticipated this book is, it already reached the top spot on the Barnes and Noble website last 20^th of April and is steadily approaching the Amazon.com top 100, with more than four months before its bookstore release date.

You want intrigue? You want controversy with a bit of history? Get Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, formerly The Solomon Key.

Photo "The sun and the moon and stars" by phill.d on flickr under CC License BY-NC-SA-2.0.

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