Dan Brown has mastered the art of fiction-writing.

Like the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons

too, is full of drama, sequences and clues unfolding the mystery. For those who enjoy Brown’s
writings, Angels and Demons comes as a real treat. With the person playing the lead role in both
the novels same, in an unconscious mind, there comes but a natural tendency to compare both
the books. However, the comparison must end here, as there is nothing in common between the
Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

The novel introduces readers to the 16th century secret society Illuminati, which is made to
believe is plotting murders of aspiring Popes. However, the most interesting facet of the novel is
the attempt that it makes to link religion and science. From time immemorial, church has
remained antagonistic to science, thereby, accused of getting Galileo, Da Vinci and some other
prominent scientists of passed centuries killed.

Plot of the novel revolves around professor of Religious Iconology and Art History at Harvard
University Robert Langdon, who is made to get involved in the trail of a stolen anti-matter
device from CERN. Langdon is to find the anti-matter within 24 hours and place it back in the
lab or else it would explode on earth producing enough devastation. Langdon is joined in by a
scientist Vittoria, who was instrumental with her father Leonardo Vetra (who is found murdered)
in inventing the anti-matter that could perhaps have solved the energy crisis the planet faces.
Trail for the anti-matter lead Langdon and Vittoria to Vatican City, where they discover the
worst kept secret of Catholic Church and its governing body.

At best the novel makes a good reading.