Brown Sticks to Successful Formula

The book at the centre of "the publishing event of the year" has received a thumbs-up from those reviewers who read the book overnight. First out of the traps was Waterstone's Jon Howells, who took 10 hours to complete The Lost Symbol, finishing just after 5am. Tweeting from a hotel near the chain's flagship store, Howells wrote that the book was a "novel of ideas as well as codes, his most ambitious yet".