Word: ordo
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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...