Summary of "Angels and Demons"

A scientist is murdered at CERN in Switzerland, the high tech research laboratory specializing in nuclear physics. The dead scientist Leonardo Vetra has the word Illuminati burned onto his chest, and the killer has stolen a sample of Leonardo's latest discovery, antimatter, which is highly explosive substance. Antimatter will explode whenever it comes into contact with matter, which is anything and everything.

The symbol specialist Robert Langdon recognizes the word Illuminati written on the dead man's chest. Robert knows that it was an old secret society that no longer exists, but it seems to have resurrected. Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra - the scientist's daughter - travel to Rome to find the murderer and the antimatter.

Meanwhile the cardinals have gathered in Rome for a conclave to select a new Pope. Somewhere beneath them is a bomb made of the antimatter. The clock is ticking and the bomb will explode within 24 hours and wipe the whole Vatican City away forever.

"Angels and Demons" is a quite poor novel. Dan Brown wrote this novel before his bestseller "The Da Vinci Code", but "Angels and Demons" is in every regard worse than its sequel. If you are an experienced reader you will probably not like this book, whereas the inexperienced reader will probably like it for the easy and fast reading. It is thrilling and the plot is similar to "The Da Vinci Code". However, Dan Brown's writing and the dialogue is poor and there is quite a lot of cursing. I would not recommend this book, but Dan Brown's language seems to be improving with every book that he writes. Therefore I look forward to his next novel.

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