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...Unlike the first two Langdon novels, The Lost Symbol (Doubleday; 509 pages) doesn't deal with the history of the Christian church. The mythology Langdon is decoding is that of the Freemasons (whose motto ordo ab chao, order out of chaos, could be Brown's). Langdon is summoned - dude is always getting summoned - to Washington, D.C., by a mysterious phone call that he thinks is coming from his old friend and mentor Peter Solomon, head of the Smithsonian. Langdon thinks he's going to give a speech at a Smithsonian fundraiser at the Capitol building. But when he shows...
...again poised to rank near the top before becoming a fully fledged torero in the fall. This Saturday, he faces his rival, Cayetano, a fellow novillero who won 88 trophies last year, in San Sebastián. Cayetano, unlike his challenger, is a purebred torero: his grandfather, Antonio Ordoñez, was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and his uncle, father, and brother are all bullfighting legends. It will be an important fight, says Leal, because of their contrasting backgrounds. "Cayetano is the scion of toreros. Mehdi comes from nothing." However far Savalli has come...
...find out what's suspicious conductuntil you survey the scene and find out what'sgoing on?" the source said. "Do you call thepolice just because a man is acting suspicious, ordo you want to find out what's going...
...straggled along he began paying more and more heed to an assortment of eccentrics who had attached themselves to the fringes of his entourage. Among them were members of Novus, an amorphous organization that takes its name from a Latin motto on the Great Seal of the U.S., Novus ordo seclorum, meaning New Order of the Ages. According to Bill Whitson, 53, one of the group's founders, who is currently on a leave of absence from his post at the Library of Congress, Novus is a loose network of people across the country who believe that "society will...
...said in another context, then a number of occult societies operating in California at that time were the advertising geniuses. The three main ones that Sanders mentions are the Process Church of the Final Judgement (better known to Cambridge residents as just "The Process."); the Solar Lodge of the Ordo Temple Orientis, who drink blood, hate blacks, and religiously indulge in sado-sodo sex and magic; and the Kirke Order of Dog Blood, which means just what it says. Of the three, only the Process has been shown by Sanders to have even a tenuous connection to Manson, which...