This and Dan Brown's other notable novel, The Da Vinci Code, follow such a similar narrative arc that they may as well be the same book with the names and locations changed.

Again, the Catholic Church can do no good, and it's up to Brown's hero to show the world exactly how Evil Genius the perpetrator really is. Oh, and there's a cute girl, who contributes far less than her education might imply.

And he never gets around the whole "so how exactly can a scientist create antimatter in an environment where contact with said environment would cause it to destroy that very same environment"? Plot holes abound, if you take a quick look at it.

Simply put, this is the secular equivalent to the Left Behind novels.