Again I am reading the first novel of a series after the second, but this time I am not alone, as The Da Vinci Code has been a New York Times best-seller, and most readers are directed to Robert Langdon's first adventure by the blunt marketing slogans pointing out that fact. The two books are terribly similar: Langdon is pulled from his bed to the site of the brutal murder of a CERN scientist (rather than the curator of the Louvre) and finds himself with the victims daughter (rather than his grand-daughter) in a chase across Rome (Paris and London) where he has to figure out an ancient puzzle created by Galileo Galilei (Leonardo Da Vinci) that leads to the secret lair of the Illuminati (the Knights Templar), all the while being chased by a dangerous Arabian assassin (an Albino monk) and fooled by a traitorous friend who turns out to be the master-mind that has been deceiving both the evil assassin (the Catholic sect) and our heroes. Add to that an unhealthy dose of science fiction (only in Angels & Demons) with massively super-sonic flights and an anti-matter bomb(!), and you might have to think this is a rather silly book. Maybe so, but it is really fast-paced, full of twists and Brown pulls no punches in the incredible (yes, silly, but stunning) finale.

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