FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION, MARCH 2006

Copyright © 2003 by Dan Brown

Excerpt from The Lost Symbol copyright © 2009 by Dan Brown

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2003.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as: ISBN 0-385-50420-9

Anchor Books Trade Paperback ISBN 9780307277671
Ebook ISBN 9780385504218

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