Angels and Demons

A Novel

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets.

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.©2000 Dan Brown; (P)2004 Simon & Schuster, Inc., AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Divison, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

San Francisco Chronicle A breathless, real-time adventure....Exciting, fast-paced, with an unusually high IQ.

Great story telling.

Would you listen to Angels and Demons again? Why?

Its fiction, but it fitts in with the great story telling by Mr Brown.

What did you like best about this story?

Attention too detail about the Vatican that I didn't know about.

What does Richard Poe bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?

He is a great actor, reader. He did his homework to bring the story to life.

Suspense & thrills

A great way to spend the commute- stuck in traffic while Robert Langdon races around Rome, trying to get a step ahead of a cunning killer!
Dan Brown enables you to visualize all the hidden niches and underground pathways of the Illuminati path with amazing clarity. . . I was enlightened!

Another great book! I couldn't stop listening

Well narrated and a roller coaster ride with more twists that the DaVinci Code! Dan Brown sure knows how to write a gripping novel. Now off to listen to Inferno!

Amazing

Would you listen to Angels and Demons again? Why?

I would listen to it again but maybe with a map so i could feel like I am a going around to the places with the characters.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Robert Langdon since he never gave up and could figure out everything just in time.

Have you listened to any of Richard Poe’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No. sorry

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

They already made a film.

Any additional comments?

I couldn't put this book down it was that good. It was 18 hours and finished in 2 days. Really looking forward to the next book :-)

Great reader, Great Story, Keeps you on the edge

GREAT READER! close your eyes and you are in the mix of the novel. GREAT STORY! I have to say another great book by Dan Brown....Keeps you on the edge.