The plot revovles around the legendery secret society Illuminati. A murder happens at CERN and its director calls up Robert to solve the ambigram seen on the dead body. It turns out to be the ambigram by Illuminati. From there the story begins. It describes the things happening in next 24 hours. Dan had tried really hard in narrating the story in very fast pace, suiting the present generation without making it boring. Langdon further goes to Rome where Pope is recently dead and Preferiti is assembled there to elect the next Pope. One side papal election is going on and on other side Langdon’s investigation is getting intense. To add spice to the dish there is a nuke bomb which is set to explode in next 24 hours. Langdon has to find out the Illuminati, find the location of the bomb and destroy it. Sounds like a computer game?
Dan Brown has said the story convincingly. The pace at which the sotry goes is terrific. To add masala he has included the inside story of Papal election and internal politics in Vatican. As a trend he would follow in the following books to come, he has mention some old digniteries, artists and sculpturers from past in the list of the members of the secret society. Finaly with the help of a lady scientist who happened to be the step daughter of the murdered scientist at CERN, Langdon finds out the culprit.
The book was made into a major movie with Tom Hanks in the lead role. It surely has got some hard criticism from the church. But we should treat a thriller as thriller. Not as a document on history.
