The Secret Of Secrets

I just finished reading The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown's latest international thriller featuring Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology. In this novel, Langdon is in Prague to attend a lecture by his girlfriend Katherine Solomon, a noetic scientist about to publish a groundbreaking book that will change the nature of our understanding of human consciousness. Basically, she has a theory that the out of body experiences of people in near-death situations can be replicated and that human consciousness is actually separate from the physical body. Which means it is possible for your mind to be at one with the universe, travel anywhere while your body remains in place, and even exist after death.  However, the morning after the lecture, Solomon disappears, and it becomes apparent that a mysterious organization wants to stop her book from being published, at any cost. Langdon desperately begins a search for her across Prague and soon realizes that it might be the U.S. government itself that is behind it all. Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code, which was a big bestseller, and the best thing about these books is following the characters through exotic locales as they solve the mystery at hand, in this case throughout the City of Prague. I am glad I read the book, but in this novel, there is a lot of scientific detail about noetic science which to me slows the story down. And in fact, this book is almost 700 pages long, an astounding length for a thriller like this. It was an interesting story, I did like it, but this is not a book I would ever read again.