The Mickey Mouse watch-wearing, claustrophobic, always-near-trouble symbology professor is back in Dan Brown’s latest book. Origin asks the questions Where do we come from? Where are we going? They are questions about humanity–but they could just as easily be questions about Robert Langdon.
Brown and serious ideas: they do fit together, never more than they have in Origin. It will shatter them.” Kirsch is of course addressing The World, because that’s the scale on which Brown writes. In Origin, the brash futurist Edmond Kirsch comes up with a theory so bold, so daring that, as he modestly thinks to himself in Brown’s beloved italics, “It will not shake your foundations.
Origin is Dan Brown’s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.įans of The Da Vinci Code rejoice! Professor Robert Langdon is again solving the mysteries of the universe.Ī brisk new book that pits creationism against science, and is liable to stir up as much controversy as The Da Vinci Code did. and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery. and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.Īs the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement-the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure.
The stunningly inventive new novel from the world’s most popular thriller writer
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