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Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

When a CERN scientist is brutally murdered and a sample of his lethal discovery stolen, noted Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited to decipher the meaning of a mysterious symbol branded onto the murdered man's chest. So begins Langdon's quest to defeat the Illuminati before they can destroy the Vatican.

The Illuminati, an ancient brotherhood long ago extinguished by the Catholic Church, now resurrected to exact its revenge on the Vatican, has some ironclad advantages. A trained Hassassin, an unstoppable antimatter bomb hidden somewhere inside Vatican City, cardinals held captive, a short timetable and operatives working on the inside give the Illuminati an aura of invincibility.

Following a 400-year old trail of obscure clues, Langdon, Vittoria Vetra, daughter of the slain scientist, and elite troops of the Vatican Swiss Guard pursue the elusive, ruthless Hassassin across Rome, along a well-hidden geometric path they hope will lead them to the long-forgotten seat of Illuminati power. As the clock winds down to its final hour—its final minutes—the pursuers face new dangers and new challenges, while the fates of Vatican City and of world Catholicism hang in the balance.

Angels & Demons is another tense, gripping tale by novelist Dan Brown, author of Deception Point and The Da Vinci Code. Educated at Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, he was an English teacher before he became a full-time writer. Dan is married and lives in New England.

Visit Dan's Web site at www.danbrown.com/

Review by Phil Hanson

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