Angels & Demons: A Novel

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling leader of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that ongoing it all.

An very ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an very ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati…the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the planet. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most despised enemy — the Catholic Church.

Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a gorgeous and mysterious Italian scientist, to help the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, treacherous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive tomb on planet, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-ancient trail of very ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair…a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

Critics have praised the exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit establish in Brown’s remarkable thrillers featuring Robert Langdon. An explosive international suspense, Angels & Demons inscription this hero’s first adventure as it careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.Amazon.com Review
It takes guts to write a novel that combines an very ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a gorgeous Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller–reflect Katherine Neville’s The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (but more accessible).

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati–dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism–is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society’s very ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and treacherous energy source known to man, has disappeared–only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra’s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-ancient trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.

Brown seems as much juggler as leader–there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader hastily into an nearly surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a small more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a small less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances–readers should have no distress skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a excellent read. “Brain candy” it may be, but my! It’s tasty. –Kelly Flynn

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