Angels & Demons

    Published:   2000 & 2003, Atria

    Formats:     Hardback, Paperback, Audio CD,
                      Kindle

    Hardback:    ISBN-13: 978-0-743-48622-4
                      Pages: 592

    Paperback:   ISBN-13: 978-0-743-49346-8
                       Pages: 496


                           

Plot:

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization-the Illuminati, the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.

Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces he has 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 beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair…a secret location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.