Robert Langdon is a Harvard symboligist having a peaceful night at home when a mysterious phone call followed by an unbelievable faxed picture convinces him to take a sudden trip to a Swiss research facility. The facility sends a plane that is able to get him across the Atlantic ocean in just one hour. Once there, Robert is asked to help solve a murder and to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of the murdered physicist.
I was a little bored in the beginning while it is explained what the facility does (the particle accelerator at CERN!) and the fight between religion and science. These are often big topics in my house so I usually tend to read books that don't deal with them at all. But the story really got going when it turns out a gram of antimatter capable of wiping out a few square miles is missing and has twenty-four hours until the container holding the antimatter will shut down and all hell will break loose.
So we embark with Robert and Vittoria (daughter of the murdered scientist and a scientist herself) on a quest to save the Vatican and four cardinals whom have been kidnapped. And they must do it in less than twenty-four hours all the while the world is waiting for a new Pope to be chosen.
Very interesting book and full of action and suspense. Truly I was guessing up until the very end trying to figure out who the bad guys were!
Quotes:
“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”
“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
“Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”
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