Discover the highly anticipated bestseller that introduces the world to the likable hero Robert Langdon. At the CERN Institute in Switzerland, a world-renowned scientist is found violently murdered with a mysterious symbol carved into his chest. In the Vatican, Rome, the College of Cardinals gathers to elect a new pope. Beneath these events, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power counts down to destruction. In a gripping race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decode a labyrinthine path of ancient symbols to defeat the perpetrators - the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood believed to have been extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly revenge against their most hated enemy, the Catholic Church.