But it turns out that the FBI doesn't have a giant puzzle sculpture on its grounds, so it's the CIA that swoops in. If it's anybody's job, it would be the Fibbies-FBI.
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In fact, the CIA's interest turns out to be that the Big Baddie has taken video of secret Masonic rites, and the video includes recognizable US Senators and other DC big wigs, wielding knives, drinking what looks like blood out of skulls, and making truly obnoxious threats along the lines of "your viscera will be ripped from your abdomen if you reveal the secrets of this room." Understandably, these things could be considered inflammatory if posted on YouTube.Īgain, however, it is not the CIA's job to protect the reputations of American citizens caught doing stupid looking things. Maybe the Capitol security and DC cops and FBI might have some interest, but the CIA should really be looking at this as intramural and of no interests whatsoever. The CIA can't arrest anybody, doesn't have any direct authority over the Capitol police, and basically wouldn't have any official reason to be involved in this matter whatsoever. Now, I'm no expert-and I didn't just write a 400 page novel with the CIA at the center of it-but my understanding of things is that the CIA doesn't have civil authority inside US borders. She immediately starts throwing her weight around, threatening job security and offering to arrest anybody who fails to co-operate. Photo from here-an interesting site collecting references from the bookĪt this point, Langdon is frantic to find his friend, the Capitol security guards are confused, and suddenly in rushes a terrifying Japanese (really? or Japanese-American? ) woman who is a Director of the CIA. But unlike when it was actually attached to Peter Solomon, now it has tattoos on the fingers, which makes it the "Hand Of Mysteries."
Langdon recognizes is as belonging to the guy he was supposed to be meeting at the imaginary event-the ID is the 33rd Degree Masonic ring. I mean, all the puzzles and solutions and everything are frickin' carved in granite-it's not like they are going anywhere. There are several threats about "running out of time" although there is absolutely no reason everything has to happen in this particular 10 hour period of time. For some reason, everything "has" to happen on this particular night. Because being creepy is the only way to get Langdon's attention, apparently.Īnd the race is on. He gets there, late and disheveled, only to find that there is no event! Statuary Hall is empty! But there is a kerfuffle in the Rotunda-a human hand on a spike, pointing upward. Robert Langdon, everybody's favorite symbologist (isn't the field actually called "hermeneutics?") is called to DC to serve as a last minute substitute speaker at some event being held in the Capitol building.
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#The lost symbol summary code
It's The Da Vinci Code set in Washington D.C.
#The lost symbol summary serial
There is the enormous body count, caused by a sociopathic serial murderer who for some reason never quite gets around to killing the main characters, although the secondary and lower characters have about a 10% survival rate.
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There are the fake etymologies-Amen at the end of a prayer is supposed to derive from the name of the Egyptian god Amun-everything is connected to everything else! There is the beautiful woman companion with absolutely no sexual attraction whatsoever. There is the ominous secret society, this time the Freemasons. There are the lectures about the "real meaning" of architecture, secret societies, language. There is the bad guy who turns out not to be so bad.
#The lost symbol summary full
There is the physical freak with an inexplicable obsession-this one is a 'roid-fueled bald guy with a full body Nair addiction, who has tattooed every inch of his body, except for the very top of his head. The excessive use of italics for emphasis-when you can't make the point by repeating it, do it again in italics in its own paragraph. There are the ridiculously short chapters. What is there to say about this book other than it is exactly what you would expect from a Dan Brown Novel(TM).