Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
| Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel |
Product Description: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church. Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have 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 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 clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation. Critics have praised the exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit found in Brown's remarkable thrillers featuring Robert Langdon. An explosive international suspense, Angels & Demons marks this hero's first adventure as it careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Better than Da VinciThis book has over a thousand reviewers, so I would amagine everything has been said. I liked it better than the even more popular Da Vinci Code--but they're both good reads. Rating:  - Amazong novel from Dan BrownI should first admit that I was really late in giving a review of this book. I watched the movie first and then I was pretty impressed with the movie, that I got the book and it was a very nice read. If you love semi-fiction and a little bit of history and religion, this book is an amazing read. Rating: - Angels & Demons, Special Illustrated EditionFantastic Reading ... Dan Brown keeps you glued to Angels & Demons ... You won't be able to put the book down. The Special Illustrated Edition really helps bring the story to life and embellish the whole visual experience. Rating: - not for the weak at heartwriting that will keep you at the edge of your seat. a great addition to your Dan Brown library. Rating: - `Angels and Demons'`Angels and Demons' has all in it to be quoted as the `universal best seller' as it was rightly done in the New York Times. But the novel gained recognition only after the release of the controversial `The Da Vinci Code' a novel that faced a lot of opposition from the Vatican and other catholic sects. The author of this novel, Dan Brown is known for his wonderful gifted ability to weave fiction and fact as one. His familiarity with science and Vatican are clearly visible in this novel. Starring in this novel is the fictional Harvard University Symbologist, Robert Langdon. He is familiar to the ones who read Brown's previous novel, as he was the one who played the leading role in that novel too. The display of his academic skills in this novel once again has caught the readers' mind. The heroine of this novel, Vittoria Vetra is also a brilliant academic, whose father gets killed by the Assassin who is hired by the Janus. Janus is none other than the Camerlengo, in disguise, whose real face is revealed in the longrun. The author has portrayed all his characters in a fantastic manner. In the case of the Assassin, he is portrayed as a character of shear power and brut force. The reinvention of the Illuminati is a master stroke, although that does not have any impact on the end climax, as it was a tool used by the Janus to guise himself from the outside world. The Camerlengo's instant transformation into a God like thing comes in as a real surprise. But soon his real face is revealed in the climax. This novel when released was also not short of controversies. Despite all that, the novel has managed to come out as a universal best seller. All credits to Dan Brown 
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