Angels & Demons This book is the author’s prequel to “The DaVinci Code” and his character Robert Langdon’s first adventure. Again I got another good mystery, a science lesson and a religious history lesson. Those last two subjects are not high on my hit parade, but, as in “The DaVinci Code”, the author makes learning easy. Another great novel by Dan Brown! His in-depth research is evident. A prominent physicist, Leonardo Vetra, is brutally murdered in Geneva, Switzerland. His neck was broken, an eye gouged out, and his face turned to the floor, and the word ‘Illuminati’, the name of a centuries-old secret society, was branded on his chest. Not a pretty picture by any stretch of the imagination. Langdon is rousted from his sleep by a call from the Director of CERN, a scientific research facility in Geneva where Vetra worked. He is called because of his renown as a symbologist at Harvard and is summoned to Geneva to determine the meaning and source of the symbol. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria, (she’s a super-smart physicist, too) had also been summoned back to CERN from a research expedition. When she arrives, she tells Robert and the Director about the phenomenal experiment she and her father had been working on and perfected…creating antimatter. OK folks, this is where I get lost since I’m no science whiz. Suffice it to say that one of the canisters of antimatter is missing and Robert and Vittoria set out to find it. Their search takes them to Rome and the Vatican to find the clues to where four prominent cardinals will be murdered (the killer’s prelude to the ‘big bang’ at midnight) and thus find the killer who will know where the deadly canister is. Along the way Robert and Vittoria run into all sorts of problems and harrowing circumstances, some that stretch the credibility factor a bit. And, of course, you wonder who is directing the killer’s actions (it was one of the three I guessed). I won't get into the source, background or current status of Illuminati, but it's alive and well today. Do a search on Illuminati for yourself. |
- Bonus Review - Like the teachings of Jesus, the
predictions of Michel de Nostradame, and the visions of Joseph Smith, it’s entirely
possible that in a hundred years or so author Bob Miller’s diary entries about an
angel named Zabar will serve their intended purpose. Zabar is quite a guy . . . dresses
appropriately for every occasion, speaks well, and is very caring. But he has a big job to
do, and if his matter-of-fact words of wisdom fall on deaf ears, watch out—he's not
afraid to use the wrath of God to get his point across.
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