Le Symbole perdu

Le désormais célèbre Robert Langdon, professeur en iconographie et art religieux, est convoqué par son ami Peter Solomon, maçon de haut grade, pour une conférence à donner le soir même. Mais en arrivant au Capitole, il fait une macabre découverte. Ce sera le premier indice d'une quête haletante, de la Bibliothèque du Congrès aux temples maçonniques, à la recherche du secret le mieux gardé de la franc-maçonnerie. Une aventure où s'affrontent les traditions de l'ésotérisme et la formidable intelligence de Robert Langdon, remarquablement servie par la voix à la fois tranchante et énigmatique de François d'Aubigny. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object —artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon—a prominent Mason and philanthropist —is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations—all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. An adventure where esoteric traditions match the great intellect of Robert Langdon, read by François d'Aubigny, whose voice suits the novel well, both sharp and enigmatic.