Angels and Demons post 2

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown is a book about a symbologist (a specialist in what symbols stand for) named Robert Langdon, a professor at Harvard University. Langdon is called to a Swiss research facility to inspect a symbol that was burned onto the chest of a murdered scientist.
Robert Langdon meets the caller at Switzerland’s Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). The caller's name is Maximilian Kohler the director general of CERN.
The author's description for Kohler is, a lifeless guy in a lab coat and in a wheelchair with a computer to communicate . When I read this I immediately thought of Stephen Hawking the famous Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist. Kohler takes Langdon to the murder site and explains the the murdered scientist’s name is Leonardo Verta and that he was a brilliant scientist. Langdon was surprised that Kohler didn’t call the police once he found out the Leonardo Vetra was murdered. If I were is Kohler's place I would have taken the nearest phone and called the police and the FBI. Kohler says the reason that he didn’t call the police was because he wanted to see what Leonardo’s adopted daughter wants to do with her dad. I wonder if that isn’t the reason why Kohler didn’t call the police. Langdon and Kohler reach the lab where Leonardo was killed. Langdon describes that Leonardo was on the ground, in his own pee, striped naked, and his skin was bluish gray . Langdon continues his description by saying the Leonardo’s head was twisted completely backwards, his eye was taken completely out, his chest was branded with the word Illuminati.

I thought that the way they found Leonardo Verta’s dead body was disgusting. I want to know more on who killed him and why. Was Leonardo Verta’s work so valuable that they had to kill him to get the answer? I am so interested in the book and how it’s so quick in introducing the plot.

Brown, Dan. Angels & Demons. Newmarket P, 2009.

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  1. Stansbury English TeacherDecember 14, 2017 at 5:20 PM

    Wow! Very disgusting and vivid. I did not read the book. I guess I have to add it to my read pile.

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