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Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets hits shelves on Sept. 9 and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look – and listen!

The book, which has been called Brown's "most ambitious novel to date" follows symbologist Robert Langdon to Prague

Read and listen to an early excerpt from the prologue of the book, below

Listen to an excerpt from 'The Secret of Secrets'

I must have died , the woman thought.

She was drifting high above the spires of the old city. Beneath her, the illuminated towers of St. Vitus Cathedral glowed on a sea of twinkling lights. With her eyes, if she still had eyes, she traced the gentle slope of Castle Hill down into the heart of the Bohemian capital, following the labyrinth of winding streets that lay shrouded in a fresh blanket of snow.

Prague.

Disoriented

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