From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the first breathless adventure featuring world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon.
In Angels & Demons, Langdon is summoned on his first assignment: to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization—the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and …