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Angels & Demons
Part of the Robert Langdon series
- 575 pages · about 10 hours
- First published 2000
- 171 editions
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1 About this book
Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology, is called to the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, where a physicist has been found murdered with the word Illuminati branded on his chest. A canister of antimatter that the physicist created has been stolen and hidden somewhere in Vatican City, where the cardinals are gathering to elect a new pope. With the dead man's adopted daughter, the scientist Vittoria Vetra, Langdon follows a trail of clues through the churches and monuments of Rome, laid long ago by a secret brotherhood that was thought to be extinct. Angels & Demons, published in 2000, is the first Robert Langdon novel; The Da Vinci Code followed it.
- Murder
- Action and adventure fiction
- Thrillers
- Crimes against
- Adventure
- Investigation
- Women scientists
- College teachers
2 What to expect
A fast conspiracy thriller set over a single day in Rome and the Vatican, where a symbologist follows a trail of clues to stop a threat against the Church. Science against religion is the theme, wrapped in art history, secret societies and puzzles. Short chapters and constant cliffhangers keep it moving, some of the murders are gruesome, and its history and science are invented or stretched for the plot.
Good for readers who want: a fast conspiracy thriller, puzzles and art history, and Rome and the Vatican.
3 About Dan Brown
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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