If Robert Langdon cracking the Masonic cipher, the Capitol Rotunda clues, and that stone pyramid hooked you, you'll love how Princeton students Tom and Paul unravel the riddles of the mysterious Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili—only to find their codebreaking draws assassins and campus power brokers into a lethal chase. Like Peter Solomon’s hidden trail, every solved clue opens a darker chamber.

You were pulled into the Capitol tunnels, the House of the Temple, and CIA Director Sato’s maneuvers while Langdon raced to save Peter Solomon. In Brad Meltzer’s thriller, archivist Beecher White stumbles onto a secret tied to George Washington that pits him against the presidency itself—think the “Apotheosis of Washington” puzzle’s stakes, but woven through the National Archives, the White House, and a covert society protecting power.

If the nonstop tempo of Langdon and Katherine sprinting from the Smithsonian to underground chambers kept you up late, The Last Templar opens with a shocking museum raid and rockets into a chase across continents for a Templar secret. Much like Mal’akh forcing a countdown with Peter’s life, every clue here accelerates the pursuit—and each revelation raises the stakes.

Drawn to the Masonic symbols, the multi-layered codes in the pyramid, and the way the “Apotheosis of Washington” seemed to whisper meanings? Eco’s classic follows editors who assemble a grand conspiracy from Templars, Rosicrucians, and occult lore—until the invented pattern appears to come true. If Mal’akh’s tattoos and ritual puzzles fascinated you, this labyrinth of signs will be catnip.

Like Langdon’s urgent quest to interpret the Masonic pyramid to save Peter Solomon, ex-agent Cotton Malone follows cryptic Templar clues through abbeys, archives, and hidden vaults while rivals close in. The ticking-clock puzzles and historical revelations echo the Capitol and House of the Temple sequences—only here the treasure’s implications could rewrite history.