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 -- sea... (展开全部)
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.
A long time after reading the extraordinary quest of Holy Grail, the past week I was so so absorbed into another unbelievable adventure of Robert Langdon, an ex...... (1回应)
Dan Brown是个讲故事的高手!
在连续看过了他的《Deception Point》、《Angels and Demons》和《Da vinci Code》,我不得不发出这样的感慨。从表象上说,Dan的小说重复了一样的模式:故事都在大致一天内发生,学士渊博的男主人公和既有智慧又有外表的美女一起,被卷入一场阴谋......
上周六去过santa maria del popolo,那时还没看到书中相关章节,也没去找金字塔,只在入口旁边为拍个骷髅头耽误了会儿,出来之后导游教授就消失了。圣彼得广场去了很多次,要不是这书,真不知道还有块西风石,更不知道那些方尖石是从埃及弄来的,人民广场(piazza del popolo中文版翻成“波波洛”广场,......