* Digital Fortress, 1998
When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking machine
(TRANSLTR) encounters a mysterious and ingeniously complex code called
Digital Fortress that it cannot break, Commander Trevor Strathmore calls
in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and their head
cryptographer, to crack it. She discovers that it was written by Ensei
Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's
intrusion into people's private lives. Tankado intends to auction
the code's algorithm on his website and have his partner, "NDAKOTA",
release it for free if he dies. Essentially holding the NSA hostage,
the agency is determined to stop Digital Fortress from becoming
a threat to national security.
* Angels & Demons, 2000
The plot follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, as he tries to
stop what seems to be the Illuminati, a legendary secret society, from
destroying Vatican City with the newly-discovered power of antimatter.
CERN director Maximilian Kohler discovers one of the facility's most
respected physicists, Leonardo Vetra, murdered in his own secured,
private quarter at the facility. His chest is branded with a symbol.an
ambigram of the word "Illuminati".and his eye is dislodged. Instead of
calling the police, Kohler researches the topic on the Internet and
finally gains contact with Langdon, an expert on the Illuminati. Kohler
requests his assistance in uncovering the murderer.
* Deception Point, 2001
Intelligence Analyst Rachel Sexton is in her mid-thirties, is single,
and works for the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office). Her father,
Senator Sedgewick Sexton, is a presidential candidate who is more
popular than incumbent President of the United States Zachary Herney.
The President sends her to the Arctic as part of a team of experts to
confirm and authenticate findings made by NASA deep within the Milne
Ice Shelf. NASA's new Polar Orbiting Density Scanner (PODS), part of
the Earth Observation System (EOS), a collection of satellites
monitoring the globe for signs of large-scale change, has found an
extremely dense spot in the Milne Ice Shelf. At this spot NASA discovers
a very dense meteorite. In it are fossils of bugs very similar to, but
not the same as, species on earth. NASA claims this as proof of
extraterrestrial life.
* The Da Vinci Code, 2003
This book describes the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of
Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of
renowned curator Jacques SauniÉre of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
A baffling cipher is found near his body. SauniÉre's granddaughter,
Sophie Neveu and Langdon attempt to sort out the bizarre riddles and
are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works
of Leonardo Da Vinci.
The unraveling of the mystery requires solutions to a series of brain-
teasers, including anagrams and number puzzles. The ultimate solution
is found to be intimately connected with the possible location of
the Holy Grail and to a mysterious society called the Priory of Sion,
as well as to the Knights Templar. The story also involves the Roman
Catholic organization Opus Dei.
* The Lost Symbol, 2009
The story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C.,
with a focus on Freemasonry.[7] Robert Langdon is summoned to give
a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with
the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named
Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. Solomon
has also asked him to bring a small package which he had entrusted with
Langdon for safekeeping years earlier. When Langdon arrives at
the Capitol, however, instead of an audience for his lecture, and after
receiving a phone call from the person that he thought was from
Solomon's office he hears screams coming from the Capitol Rotunda.
Running, he finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon mounted on
a stick, directly in the middle of the room. The hand contains tattoos
on each finger, and Langdon recognizes it as the symbolic Hand of
the Mysteries, which seemingly points straight up to the fresco
The Apotheosis of Washington on the inside of the Capitol dome. Noticing
Peter's ring on one of the hand's fingers, Langdon realizes that it is
the hand of his kidnapped friend, and from messages already received he
knows that the kidnapper wants him to find both the Mason's Pyramid,
which Masons believe is hidden somewhere underground in Washington D.C.,
and the Masons' word which will complete the task that the kidnapper has
given himself.
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