On May 14, dark prince of conspiracy-based historical thrillery will release his latest, whose first printing of 4 million copies all but guarantees that it’ll be a giant hit—and that it will create lots of extra work for everybody.
Tom Hanks may have sacrificed for his art in the past (like that time he lost 40 pounds and grew a beard for Castaway), but the two-time Oscar winner draws the line at high collars.
If you've been losing sleep wondering which part of history Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown will make stuff up about next, you can finally rest easy — his forthcoming book, tentatively titled The Solomon Key, finds Code protagonist Robert Langdon investigating the Masonic symbols etched into the streets and buildings of Washington, D.C.