Read an Excerpt from Origin by Dan Brown

By Julia Huschke | September 13 2017 | Adult

Click here to read the prologue and first chapter from Origin, Dan Brown’s new book in the Robert Langdon Series. A PDF of the excerpt can also be downloaded here: Origin Excerpt.

Origin
Origin
Dan Brown
9780385514231
In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them.
$35.00 US
Oct 03, 2017
Hardcover
480 Pages
Doubleday
US, Canada, Open Mkt
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