


Langdon and Vittoria make their way to Vatican City, where the Pope has recently died.

The canister is somewhere in Vatican City, with a security camera in front of it, as its digital clock counts down to the explosion. When at CERN the canister is stored in a unique electrical charger which ensures the antimatter’s stability but when removed its back-up battery provides power for 24 hours after which the anti-matter will self-destruct. Kohler calls Vetra’s adopted daughter Vittoria to the scene, and it is ascertained that the Illuminati have stolen a canister containing antimatter - a substance with destructive potential comparable to a nuclear weapon. Kohler contacts Robert Langdon, an expert on the Illuminati, who determines that the ambigram is authentic. His chest is branded with an ambigram of the word “ Illuminati“. PlotĬERN director Maximilian Kohler discovers one of the facility’s physicists, Leonardo Vetra, murdered. The Da Vinci Code film had been released in 2006. A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009. Ancient history, architecture, and symbolism are also heavily referenced throughout the book. Angels and Demons shares many stylistic literary elements with its sequel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown’s subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code his 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol and the 2013 novel Inferno. Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery– thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books.
