Secret Sequel
Christopher Bailey Gives an Exclusive Look at Dan Brown’s Next Blockbuster Novel
Don’t ask me how—I don’t want to confess to anything that might, to small minds, seem illegal—but I’ve managed to get access to a few chapters of Dan Brown’s upcoming novel, The Rockwell Cipher. I thought you might be interested to see that he’s still using the same techniques that made The Da Vinci Code such a big hit.
Chapter 83
Langdon gave the brick a toss, and the window shattered noisily. A loud alarm blared.
“Are you nuts?” Edith said petulantly. “People can hear that miles away!”
Langdon smiled indulgently. Such an educated woman, but how little she knows of the world. “This is an American high school,” he explained. “The alarm goes off at least three times a night. I estimate we have roughly twenty-three minutes before anyone worries about it. Come on!”
He crawled through the broken window and pulled her in after him. Apparently the glass didn’t cut them.
Inside, the security lantern shed a white glow over the classroom. Like a man who knew exactly what he was looking for, Langdon strode confidently toward the large blackboard.
“I thought so,” he said triumphantly. “Just where I thought it would be.”
Chapter 84
Renowned Chief Inspector Zeke Implacable of the Cincinnati Sureté slammed his fist on the desk.
Christopher Bailey , a Lutheran, writes about everything from Arthurian mythology to wireless networking. He spent a decade on the Upward Path in corporate America, but now must be counted among the backsliders.
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