Reuters on THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND

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LONDON (Reuters) - Dan Brown’s follow-up novel to his global bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” won’t be ready by the end of the year as originally expected, his publisher said on Friday.

“We don’t know when it’s coming, but it’s out of the schedule for this year,” said Larry Finlay, managing director for Transworld Publishers in London, a division of Bertelsmann-owned Random House.

“At one point we were hoping for it around October or November, but now it’s looking like 2007,” he told Reuters, confirming a report in the Bookseller trade publication.

The book, whose title and plot are as secretly guarded as the religious sects Brown writes about, remains unfinished, with Brown having been embroiled in a high-profile plagiarism lawsuit and the publicity surrounding an upcoming film adaptation of “The Da Vinci Code” starring Tom Hanks.

Neither Brown nor his agent in New York could immediately be reached to comment on reasons for the new book’s delay.

The working title on the novel had been “The Solomon Key” though it was reportedly dropped.

Speculative books such as “Secrets of the Widow’s Son” and “The Solomon Key and Beyond” [Nimble Books] , as well as fan Web sites, have been trying to crack the plot, which Brown himself has hinted will deal with the ancient society of Masons.

Dan Brown fans, looks like 2007 or later…

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