Decoding The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Simon Cox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 2009

Dan Brown's new novel once again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time in the United States, racing to uncover clues and crack codes involving secrets that are perpetuated to this day. But how much of the novel is true and what is pure fiction? Simon Cox, bestselling author of Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels & Demons, offers the first definitive guide to all the mysteries featured in The Lost Symbol.

Based on extensive research, this A-to-Z guide lists the real people, organizations, and themes featured in Dan Brown's latest novel, explains their histories and their meanings, reproduces and analyzes the symbols themselves, and provides insider knowledge gleaned from years of exhaustive study. From the monuments of Washington, D.C., to the secrets of Salt Lake City and the hidden enclaves in Langley, Virginia, Cox knows where the facts are hidden about the Freemasons, Albert Pike, the Rosicrucians, the Founding Fathers, and more.

This is the only resource you'll need to understand and enjoy the complex new world of The Lost Symbol.

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About the Author

Simon Cox was the founding editor-in-chief of Phenomena magazine, a U.S. based newstand publication launched in 2003. Having studied Egyptology at University College London, he went on to work as a research assistant for some of the biggest names in the alternative history game, including Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, and David Rohl. He lives in England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (November 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743287274
• ASIN: B003JTHSMC
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Companion book, December 9, 2009

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L. Brandau - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decoding The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction (Paperback)

Decoding The Lost Symbol by Simon Cox is the go-to book for those who want to read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. If you have read Dan Brown's books, you know that they are filled with symbolism, conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historical oddities. The author has created a book that gives an insight to some of these references in The Lost Symbol. There is quite a bit of information about Freemasons, Thomas Jefferson and buildings in Washington DC. Some of the other topics are Ancient Mysteries, some Biblical references, historical figures and even one of my favorite artists, Albrecht Duer. A fun book whether you read Dan Brown's book or not!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox, November 28, 2009

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Ellen P. Lafleche-christian (Vermont, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decoding The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction (Paperback)

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is the follow up book to The Davinci Code. It involves a lost symbol found on our nation's capital that turns out to be a mysterious inviation. Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox decodes the references to people, places and things in Dan Brown's book, The Lost Symbol. It is THE guide to all the mysterious references in The Lost Symbol.

Not only is Decoding the Lost Symbol a guide for those who read The Lost Symbol, it's a guide to secret societies, forgotten history & conspiracies in general. Are you interested in the Great Pyramid? Maybe you're curious the Freemasons? Wondering about the CIA or the symbolism on our dollar bill?

Just turn to the table of contents in Simon Cox's book, Decoding the Lost Symbol, to learn all about these and other mysteries in our history. You really don't need to have read Dan Brown's book, The Lost Symbol to enjoy Decoding the Lost Symbol. It's a book anyone interested in conspiracy theories or our mysterious history would enjoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Earned its Title as an "Expert Guide", February 3, 2010

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Julia Dudek (Brick, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decoding The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction (Paperback)

Simon Cox's Decoding the Lost Symbol is the perfect resource to round out the historical knowledge presented in Dan Brown's newest release, and bestselling thriller, The Lost Symbol.

What Brown covers in his fast-paced narrative in breadth--Freemasonry, alchemy, Noetic Science, and symbolism scattered around our nation's capital, among other themes--Cox covers the depth, filling in the holes and dissecting even the lesser referenced subjects in The Lost Symbol. And more important to the value of the book, the extent of Cox's research and focus on the subject matter is vividly clear in the quality of writing and inclusivity of the sixty carefully chosen topics, listed in an easy-to-reference alphabetical order. With a section of photographs and an extensive bibliography, Cox's book will satiate Brown fans' thirst for visual proof and authenticity of the obscure and incomprehensible.

A first-rate book by a first-rate author, Cox's Decoding the Lost Symbol has earned its title as an "expert guide to the facts behind the fiction" of Dan Brown's novel many times over. Five stars!

- By Julia Dudek, author of the psychological thriller [...]

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