Dan Brown 4-Book Boxset

Digital Fortress / Angel & Demons / Deception Point / The da Vinci Code

By Dan Brown

2004

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More about Robert Langdon Professor Robert Langdon, the brainchild of bestselling author Dan Brown, serves as the main fictional character in the Robert Langdon book series. Langdon is a Harvard University professor of history of art and "symbology", a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, although it’s not essentially related to the actual discipline of semiotics. According to author Dan Brown, Robert Langdon is the fictional alter ego he wishes he could have been. Born on June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, the same date and place that Brown was born, the fictional character attended Phillips Exeter Academy, same school as Brown, and Princeton University on course to becoming an accomplished scholar. According to Brown, Langdon actually looks like Harrison Ford; often wearing a turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket, khakis, and collegiate cordovan loafers. He drives an automatic Saab 900S, and still wears a Mickey Mouse watch which he received as a gift from his parents on his ninth birthday. When he was seven years old, Langdon fell into a well and got trapped there overnight; something that gave rise to his claustrophobia which he suffers from. Peter Solomon, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is his mentor and father figure. His father however died when Langdon was twelve. An incredibly gifted problem solver with a photographic memory, the symbologist is summoned to help assist with investigations regarding the death of CERN's most renowned physicist in Angels & Demons, before being summoned to decipher another bizarre symbol in The Da Vinci Code. Robert is thrown into another riddle when his dearest friend and father figure Peter Solomon, is kidnapped in The Lost Symbol. He then goes toe to toe with a man determined to end the world in the Inferno, before embarking on a mission to locate cryptic password that will unlock the secret by one of his former students in Origin.

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Dan Brown

Author · 21 books

Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 52 languages around the world with 200 million copies in print. In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.” The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing. Brown is currently at work on a new book as well as the Columbia Pictures film version of his most recent novel.