How to write a suspense thriller ~Dan Brown

Askelad
2 min readJun 12, 2017

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PROLOGUE

The murderer just murdered a VIP and leaves a hint about a secret

  • Robert Langdon, who was dreaming, was suddenly called on his phone at an odd time, by someone seeking for his immediate assistance somewhere, with a flight ready to escort him
  • He flies all the way wondering why, and after a warm welcome, he guesses it right that its gonna be a long night
  • He takes enough time to realise that he’s in danger, way too far from the point where he could abscond
  • Someone tries helping him, while others try extracting some information from him
  • Robert starts describing History, Symbology, but apparently never comes to any conclusion until there’s another murder and a close encounter with the murderer
  • Now, a Lady comes to him, both of them almost die just to survive again alongside while they reason to each other about all that night’s happenings
  • He gives a flashback of Havard students asking some stuff, when he’s in danger or while finally having something to eat
  • He always tries finding meaningful messages from meaningless symbols
  • He’s once afraid of Narrow spaces and tries to imagine that he’s in a vast open space, actually being crushed in a Tomb
  • His Mickey Mouse Watch helps him survive from a direct combat with Death
  • He breaks codes and decrypts stuff after realising that he was actually talking to the Murderer himself until that moment
  • Slowly, all the broken pieces of the story fit into each other, and he realises a little more history
  • Having a bit of romance with that lady, he gives lectures on History and Mystery

EPILOGUE

He reaches all those people who are remaining Alive., and himself realises little history and receives an Artefact

…This is just a wordplay trying to summarize the common patterns in the Langdon Series’ books by Dan Brown…

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