Dan Brown (Angels And Demons)

CERN Institue, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdere with a mysterious symbol seared into his chest.

The Vatican, Rome: the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath themm, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion.

In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher aa labyrinthine trial of ancient symbols iif he is to defeatt those responsible- the illuminati - a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic church.