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Dan Brown's new book is out now, and it's great news for fans of his Robert Langdon series. It's been eight years since the last installment in the series (Origin), which is the longest break between ...

After hours of battling a homicidal robot, evading a ghostly entity and digging into the mysterious fate of the enigmatic Edwin Murray, you reach Secret of the Mimic's ending and are confronted with a ...