Angels & Demons

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1?New York Times?bestselling author of?The Da Vinci Code?and?Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.

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.

作者簡介

　　丹‧布朗畢業於安赫斯特大學（Amherst College）的菲利普o埃克塞特學院（Philips Exeter Academy），在他全心投入寫作之時，一直擔任該學院的英文老師。1996年，丹‧布朗出於對從事密碼破譯工作的秘密政府機關的興趣，寫作了自己的第 一部小說《數位堡壘》（Digital Fortress）。而這部小說立刻成了國內首屈一指的網路小說。它以美國國家安全局（National Security Agency）背景，探究了公民隱私和國家安全之間的界限。

　　丹‧布朗的父親是一名曾獲得總統榮譽獎的數學教授，母 親是一名職業宗教音樂家，因此，他從小就生活在科學和宗教相衝突的荒唐哲學中。丹‧布朗的妻子既是一名藝術歷史學家，也是一名油畫家，她不僅和丈夫一起合 作研究，還一直陪伴著他完成頻繁的研究之旅。《達文西密碼》正是夫妻倆一起到巴黎，在羅浮宮所完成。
　　
　　丹‧布朗另著有Angels & Demons以及Deception Point。現居新英格蘭。
　
　 　Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including the recent record-breaking The Lost Symbol, which had the biggest one-week sale in Random House history for a single title.  His previous title, The Da Vinci Code, has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, making it one of the bestselling novels of all time. In addition to numerous appearances on The Today Show, Mr. Brown was named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine. He has appeared in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels are published in over 50 languages around the world.