Review of ANGELS AND DEMONS

Angels and demons… another slickly written fast and fleeting nerve wrenching thriller churned out by Dan Brown. I would discuss briefly about it without any “spoilers”. This is the first Robert Langdon’s (a Harvard University symbologist) thriller (the other one being “davinci code”) based on the speculations about the resurrection of an ancient brotherhood called ILLUMINATI which was extremely powerful back in the day.

Robert Langdon fears incredible horror with the murder of the scientist who has created the state of the art technology called “antimatter” and being imprinted on the chest with an ambigrammatic(a word which would look the same when reversed it 180 degrees) pattern of the word “Illuminati” at his personal chamber in Switzerland.

The whole of New York City could be lit up for a day with a magnitude of just a single drop of “antimatter”, or even could destroy everything about a kilometer radius with the same. When a vulnerable amount of “antimatter” is being stolen from a famous scientific laboratory in Switzerland, it then reinforces the speculation of the renaissance of the dangerous group Illuminati and about the fears of what they might do with the vicious technology.

From here on the Robert Langdon strides on with a beautiful lady to study and sweat out the details about the weird and peculiar symbols related to the murder and the disappearance of the technology which would burst out and destroy everything if not replaced back in the laboratory within 24 hours. Until what started in a cosy bed at his home heads off somewhere into the Vatican city of Rome.

I’ve enjoyed the book comprehensively from start to finish. I would say this is a very good prescription for someone who’s looking for a real racy page turner with substantial twists and turns and all the interesting facts and research elements which one would usually find in Dan brown’s thrillers.