A fifth book in the successful Da Vinci Code series will be released in 2017.
The book, titled Origin, follows the books Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol and Inferno.
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Three of the four books in the series have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters; the first was the second book in the series, The Da Vinci Code in 2006.Â
The third film, an adaptation of Inferno, will be released in Australia on October 13.
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The book series follows Harvard academic Robert Langdon, a "symbologist", who unravels conspiracies and ancient mysteries.
Langdon is played in the film series by actor Tom Hanks.
Brown's publisher and editor, Bill Scott-Kerr, praised the 52-year-old New Hampshire-born writer's "unique blend of electrifying storytelling, historical reinterpretation and genius code making."
"The fact that there is to be another instalment in this record-breaking run of books will be hugely exciting to his millions of fans around the world," Scott-Kerr said.
Marketing material released by the publisher said the new book would retain Brown's "trademark style", featuring "codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture".
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It will take Langdon into "the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them."
Brown's "Robert Langdon" book series have been a huge commercial success. The publisher, Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, claims more than 200 million copies of the books have been sold in 56 languages.
But the author has had to fend off claims of plagiarism, defending lawsuits from the authors of earlier works including Lewis Perdue's The Da Vinci Legacy and Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh's Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
Both lawsuits were eventually settled in Brown's favour.
Brown's books have also been big business at the cinema; the second book in the series, The Da Vinci Code, was the first film adaptation, which was released in 2006.
It was followed by Angels & Demons, based on the first book, in 2009.
A film adaptation of the third book in the series, The Lost Symbol, was skipped in favour of the fourth in the series, Inferno.
That film, directed by Ron Howard and shot on location in Venice, Italy, also stars Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan and Sidse Babett Knudsen.
Origin will be published by Transworld in the UK, Doubleday in the USA and Canada and Penguin Books in Australia next September.
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