Jeffrey Brown:
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks in three films made from Brown’s novels.
This time, he’s in love with noetic scientist Katherine Solomon, whose bold new theory of human consciousness threatens to upend centuries of science and understanding, and has unhappy people threatening her.
There’s the magical setting, Prague, an historical home to the occult, a mythological figure, the golem from Jewish mysticism, murder, mayhem, all mixed with those trademark Dan Brown digressions that expound on an ancient cult or linguistic code or scientific theory that will unlock a mystery and, not incidentally, offer his hero another escape.
But every detail, Brown insists, is based on something real, and he’s done the research to prove it.
