Dan Brown · 2025 · thriller

The sixth Robert Langdon novel, and the first since Origin. Langdon is in Prague for a lecture by the noetic scientist Katherine Solomon when a murder puts her manuscript in the fire and her out of sight - and he is hunted through the city by a man dressed as the Golem, before the plot widens to London and New York.

1. 1
   Prague Castle

   Vladislav Hall, a vaulted chamber once used for indoor jousting with knights and horses in full regalia - and Katherine Solomon lecturing a standing-room audience on human consciousness the night before everything goes wrong.

2. 2
   Charles Bridge

   Langdon out running the next morning sees a woman in a spiked crown on the bridge, exactly as Katherine described her in a nightmare - and evacuates their hotel over a bomb that has, it turns out, already been defused.

3. 3
   The Jewish Quarter

   Josefov, the Old-New Synagogue and the legend the killer has dressed himself in - the Golem, a clay man raised from the Vltava mud to protect the ghetto, now used by an assassin as a costume.

4. 4
   Prague

   The subterranean research centre under the city, which is where the mystery actually is this time - not a vault or the Vatican but a secure facility, and a novel about the mind rather than the Church.

5. 5
   London

   The plot widens, and Langdon is running in a second city with a manuscript destroyed, a woman missing and an organisation that would prefer the research stayed unpublished.

6. 6
   New York

   The third city and the answer - a secret project about human consciousness, and Brown's argument that we are on the cusp of a revolution in how we think about our own brains.