16 September,2009 07:57 AM IST | | Agencies
The hotly anticipated follow-up to author Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was released yesterday amid positive reaction from critics, but the American novelist admitted he was under pressure to sell well.
The Lost Symbol comes six years after Brown's last book and again follows the adventures of Harvard professor Robert Langdon.
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It hit US bookstores at midnight with an unusually large print run of 5 million copies and even larger expectations that the book can revive the publishing industry.
In The Lost Symbol, protagonist Robert Langdon returns from his European adventures of The Da Vinci Code. He becomes immersed in the secret world of Freemasons and their rituals taking place over 12 hours.
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Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, said the book has broken all previous one-day sales for adult fiction in the first 24 hours of its release.
41 mins, 55 seconds
The time it took world champion speed reader Anne Jones to read the 506-page adventure yesterday
