The wait is over: new Dan Brown novel, 'The Lost Symbol,' coming in September

The wait is over: new Dan Brown novel, 'The Lost Symbol,' coming in September
By HILLEL ITALIE
Copyright 2009 Associated Press
11:16 AM CDT, April 20, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — At last, a new Dan Brown novel is coming.

Six years after the release of his mega-selling "The Da Vinci Code," the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced that Brown's "The Lost Symbol," a thriller set during a 12-hour period and featuring "Da Vinci Code" protagonist Robert Langdon, will come out in September.

The first printing will be 5 million copies, Knopf Doubleday said Monday, a modest number considering that "The Da Vinci Code" has sold more than 80 million worldwide and inspired a spin-off community of travel books, diet books and religious works.

Brown, 44, had kept his readers and the struggling book industry in suspense as year after year passed without a new novel. As far back as 2004, Doubleday had hinted that a follow up was coming, tentatively titled "The Solomon Key."