Hardcover, 844 pages
English language
Published June 8, 2005 by Bantam Press.
Enter the labyrinthine world of internationally bestselling author Dan Brown with his first two spellbinding thrillers featuring Robert Langdon:
Angels and Demons When a groundbreaking scientist is found brutally murdered, world renowned Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared on to the dead man's chest. His conclusion, that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed long dead, leads him to Rome, where against the backdrop of a papal election the Illuminati look set to renew their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic Church . . .
The Da Vinci Code Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been violently murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon begins to sort through the bizarre riddles, he is stunned …
Enter the labyrinthine world of internationally bestselling author Dan Brown with his first two spellbinding thrillers featuring Robert Langdon:
Angels and Demons When a groundbreaking scientist is found brutally murdered, world renowned Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared on to the dead man's chest. His conclusion, that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed long dead, leads him to Rome, where against the backdrop of a papal election the Illuminati look set to renew their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic Church . . .
The Da Vinci Code Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been violently murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon begins to sort through the bizarre riddles, he is stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo da Vinci - and suggests the answer to an age-old mystery which will take him into the vaults of history . . . --front flap
Look, I enjoyed reading it, but I'm not recommending it.
This is a really good book.
There is so much hype about this book.
I guess this is the western version of Ponniyn Selvan I guess.
For me, its not the plot or the subject matter. Its the action! If you dont get caught up in the "facts" in this book (it is fiction) and enjoy it then its a great read! Fast, lots of action and a real page turner.
What a sad, sad disappointment.
What can be said about this author and his reading public that reveals anything positive about American readership?
Lets see, the genre, style, and huge chunks of theme - all lifted from a more talented author without anyone noticing?
The fact that Dan now has his own table at the booksellers, with hundreds of follow-on products? Explanations, expansions, maps, diagrams, you can even book tours that will lead you along the routes taken.
All of which would be very positive for Americas grasp of even recent European and Christian history except that it is so badly mangled that now what they are getting lodged in their fuzzy little brains is wrong.
I supposed everything that could be said was, when anagrams in the film were made to glow so that Americans could keep up with the tricky concepts.
