The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (PDF Version)

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An awesome thriller you can read on the go! Read it using Adobe's free Acrobat reader on your PC or Mac. Even transfer it to your Amazon Kindle, and your PDF compatible cellphone or iPod!

The story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Freemasonry. Robert Langdon is summoned to give a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. However instead of an audience for his lecture, Langdon finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon tattooed into a Hand of the Mysteries and pointing to the fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the inside of the Capitol dome.

The Lost Symbol broke sales records, becoming the fastest selling adult-market novel in history, with over one million copies sold on the first day of release. By the end of the first week, a total of two million copies had been sold in the U.S., Canada, and UK. The hard copy book was on pre-order lists for months leading up to its release, being heavily ordered both in the United States and Canada. According to the publisher, on its first day the book sold 1 million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.S., the UK and Canada, prompting the printing of an additional 600,000 hardcover copies to the 5 million initially printed.

On its first day the book became the #1 bestseller in amazon.com, and the Amazon Kindle e-reader edition became the top-selling item on Amazon.com, outselling Amazon's sales of the hardback copy of the novel, which is the sixth best selling book of 2009 on pre-publication orders alone. The Lost Symbol also ranked as the #1 bestseller in Amazon's Canadian and British sites. Both Barnes & Noble and Waterstone's reported the book has broken all previous records for adult fiction in the United Kingdom. According to Nielsen BookScan data, 550,946 copies of The Lost Symbol were sold in its first week of sale, taking £4.6 million. By the end of the second sales week, Transworld intends to have 1.25 million copies printed. By September 25 the book ranked #1 in the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction.