09/09/2025 – Globolibri.it

L’ultimo segreto

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:39:43 +0000

Mentre si trova a Praga con Katherine Solomon, studiosa di scienze noetiche e sua compagna, Robert Langdon si ritrova all’improvviso in un incubo: Katherine è sparita dalla camera d’albergo senza lasciare traccia. E non si tratta di un banale rapimento: forze occulte, attive dall’alba della storia, sono responsabili della scomparsa. Tra antichi castelli, grandi cattedrali e labirinti sotterranei, Langdon si trova a esplorare il lato oscuro della città, deciso a portare alla luce segreti rimasti celati per secoli. Ma la sfida che gli si para davanti si rivelerà diversa, e ancora più difficile, di quelle che ha vinto in passato. Una sfida per salvare non solo la propria vita e quella di Katherine, ma il destino dell’umanità intera. A otto anni dal suo ultimo libro, Origin, Dan Brown torna con un thriller di grande forza.

Hot Wax

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:38:34 +0000

Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars.

When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning – one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.

The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear.

She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers.

Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she’d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be.

But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country – and drives her to a desperation all her own.

The Secret of Secrets

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:43:21 +0000

Robert Langdon is back in the long-awaited new race-against-time thriller from the global bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.

But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past.

He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine. Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.

The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown’s first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear…