“I must confess,” Valdespino said, “you look different than I imagined. This way, please.”Īs Valdespino guided Kirsch across the platform, the cold mountain air whipped at the bishop’s cassock. “It is not often we are consulted by men of science, especially one of your prominence. “I appreciate your requesting it.” The bishop’s voice was stronger than Kirsch expected-clear and penetrating, like a bell. “Bishop Valdespino, I want to thank you for arranging this meeting.” “Guilty as charged,” Kirsch said, smiling as he reached out to shake his host’s bony hand. “Edmond Kirsch, I assume?” the bishop intoned as Kirsch exited the train. Kirsch recognized his host’s rawboned features from photos and felt an unexpected surge of adrenaline.īishop Antonio Valdespino was a formidable figure in Spain-not only a trusted friend and counselor to the king himself, but one of the country’s most vocal and influential advocates for the preservation of conservative Catholic values and traditional political standards. The wizened skeleton of a man was draped in the traditional Catholic purple cassock and white rochet, with a zucchetto on his head. When the train reached the mountaintop, Kirsch saw a solitary figure waiting for him on the platform. And I am about to hurl a flaming spear into a hornets’ nest.
Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God … especially when their gods became threatened. Ironically, they will now be the first to learn the truth, Kirsch thought, wondering how they would react. This timeless sanctuary in Catalonia, Spain, had endured the relentless pull of gravity for more than four centuries, never slipping from its original purpose: to insulate its occupants from the modern world. In the distance, built into the face of a sheer cliff, the massive stone monastery seemed to hang in space, as if magically fused to the vertical precipice. He is represented by Heide Lange at Sanford J Greenburger Associates, Inc.AS THE ANCIENT cogwheel train clawed its way up the dizzying incline, Edmond Kirsch surveyed the jagged mountaintop above him. They take an enormous amount of research and for every one page you read in the book I have written 10 that are thrown out so I don’t know how many books I have time to write."īrown released a " Young Adult" adaptation of The Da Vinci Code on 8th September with Penguin Random House. Symbols, religion, conspiracy, all of that is a really rich world to explore." He added: "I wish I wrote these books faster, I think a lot of people do, but I don’t.
Every book I write spins off ideas for another three or four so there is no shortage of material for Robert Langdon in this world. When asked if he still had 12 books to write in mind as he had previously stated, he said at the time: "That number has probably grown. Speaking to book trade journalists in 2014, Brown said he had plenty of ideas for Robert Langdon novels. His last Robert Langdon title, Inferno (released in 2013), sold 667,518 copies in hardback and 400,231 copies in paperback, with the new movie tie-in of the book reaching the Top 50 this week. In total, the American author has sold 16 million print books in the UK for £91.7m, according to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market data, with The Da Vinci Code being his biggest seller with 4.5m copies sold - making it the second bestselling book of all time. The fact that there is to be another instalment in this record-breaking run of books will be hugely exciting to his millions of fans around the world and gives us in the publishing world another extraordinary event to look forward to next year.”īrown is the author of six number one international bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code, Inferno, The Lost Symbol, Angels & Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress. There are more than 200 million copies of Dan Brown’s books in print worldwide, according to Transworld, and his novels have been translated into 56 languages. Doubleday will release the novel simultaneously in the US and Canada. It will also be available as an e-book and an audiobook from Penguin Random House Audio.īrown’s long-term UK editor Bill Scott-Kerr, publisher of Transworld, said: “Over the past 15 years it has been an utter privilege to publish Dan Brown's unique blend of electrifying storytelling, historical reinterpretation and genius code making. Origin will be published in the UK 26th September 2017, priced £20, by Transworld imprint Bantam Press. Transworld added that it would thrust Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon "into the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them". Little has been given away about the plot of the new novel, but the publisher said it would be "in keeping with trademark style", featuring codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture. Dan Brown is publishing a new Robert Langdon thriller entitled Origin in September 2017 with Transworld.
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