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<strong>Angels</strong> & <strong>Demons</strong> by Dan Brown For Blythe… Acknowledgments A debt of gratitude to Emily Bestler, Jason Kaufman, Ben Kaplan, and everyone at Pocket Books for their belief in this project. To my friend and agent, Jake Elwell, for his enthusiasm and unflagging effort. To the legendary George Wieser, for convincing me to write novels. To my dear friend Irv Sittler, for facilitating my audience with the Pope, secreting me into parts of Vatican City few ever see, and making my time in Rome unforgettable. To one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive, John Langdon, who rose brilliantly to my impossible challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel. To Stan Planton, head librarian, Ohio University-Chillicothe, for being my number one source of information on countless topics. To Sylvia Cavazzini, for her gracious tour through the secret Passetto. And to the best parents a kid could hope for, Dick and Connie Brown… for everything. Thanks also to CERN, Henry Beckett, Brett Trotter, the Pontifical Academy of Science, Brookhaven Institute, FermiLab Library, Olga Wieser, Don Ulsch of the National Security Institute, Caroline H. Thompson at University of Wales, Kathryn Gerhard and Omar Al Kindi, John Pike and the Federation of American Scientists, Heimlich Viserholder, Corinna and Davis Hammond, Aizaz Ali, the Galileo Project of Rice University, Julie Lynn and Charlie Ryan at Mockingbird Pictures, Gary Goldstein, Dave (Vilas) Arnold and Andra Crawford, the GlobalFraternal Network, the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Jim Barrington, John Maier, the exceptionally keen eye of Margie Wachtel, alt.masonic.members, Alan Wooley, the Library of Congress Vatican Codices Exhibit, Lisa Callamaro and the Callamaro Agency, Jon A. Stowell, Musei Vaticani, Aldo Baggia, Noah Alireza, Harriet Walker, Charles Terry, Micron Electronics, Mindy Homan, Nancy andDick Curtin, Thomas D. Nadeau, NuvoMedia andRocket E-books, Frank and Sylvia Kennedy, Rome Board of Tourism, Maestro GregoryBrown, Val Brown, Werner Brandes, Paul Krupin at Direct Contact, Paul Stark, Tom King at Computalk Network, Sandy and Jerry Nolan, Web guru Linda George, the National Academy of Art in Rome, physicist and fellow scribe Steve Howe, Robert Weston, the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the Vatican Observatory. Fact The world’s largest scientific research facility—Switzerland’s Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)—recently succeeded in producing the first particles of antimatter. Antimatter is identical to physical matter except that it is composed of particles whose electric charges are opposite to those found in normal matter. Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a
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Page 47 and 48: A big empty crater. The image of he
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A spiritual conundrum, Langdon thou
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the Treasury to print it?” “No
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“The canister. You called CERN ab
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communicate in any way with the out
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Langdon and Vittoria followed the w
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scanners, olfactory filters designe
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it. A guard in full regalia stood o
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Conclave. Fortunately, the calls th
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“When the Vatican operator calls
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efore that for fourteen years! Sinc
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“Our inventory,” the caller sai
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He looked like a man searching for
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Unfortunately for the church, Morta
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“Possibly. I don’t yet know if
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45 “It won’t work,” Vittoria
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“This document,” the camerlegno
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artwork in Rome… artwork that the
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ancient chemicals, the smoke signal
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Glick’s assignment was simple. In
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Vittoria shook her head. “I can o
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“Diagramma is how Galileo got the
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50 Robert Langdon stood outside Arc
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Mideastern accent. The media is the
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Elliptical orbits. Langdon recalled
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“Go ahead.” Squinting at the fo
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“Calm down. When we decipher this
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practiced there—Pantheism—the w
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Vittoria reached across the seat an
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doesn’t know what I look like. I
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The grizzly bear gazed out at him f
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misaligned with the architecture so
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killer. Vittoria breathed deeply as
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“Santi designed the tomb,” Lang
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the back of the cramped BBC van sta
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Langdon pointed to the imposing Por
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statues, inside niches, closets, un
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Langdon to pull back the shroud. A
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Langdon caught her arm. “No. It
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down at the upturned eyes. They bul
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Above him he heard voices, but noth
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Langdon considered it. He looked at
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Langdon hoped he was going for a ma
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Olivetti shrugged and traced the st
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the piazza. Langdon felt an ominous
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drunk sat slumped on the stairs. Th
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willing to entertain. Langdon dried
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“I see.” The camerlegno exhaled
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silence of the archives felt someho
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“… find out more about the Illu
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“He had thrombophlebitis,” the
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“Incredible! I thought it was jus
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ather than cloud it. “Did you eve
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so explicit that it forced the Vati
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will do as you say…” The camerl
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Now or never, Robert, a voice urged
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“Decorum?” The camerlegno let o
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nine minutes.” When Langdon had f
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Apparently there were troubling new
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absolute silence, as if her feet ne
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In the rear of the church, Vittoria
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Somewhere a voice was telling him t
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dredged up forgotten fears—and of
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cannot understand, something to whi
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the rim, then maybe enough air coul
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Water. It was his last. Removing a
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overhead. Something was covering hi
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made some other shape. Langdon look
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counting down. Incredible! Of cours
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unsettling awareness. This fountain
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where the next assault would come.
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done. He knew exactly what would so
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ird did not budge. He tried again.
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Langdon’s dripping clothes, and y
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he was not too late. He reached up
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The Church of Illumination. Simple
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will die, of course, that is for ce
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Inside the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal
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“He will only speak to the camerl
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112 All the while, the narrow tunne
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With a scream of frustration, Langd
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But it was too late. From inside th
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his idling rotors. This was no sole
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The Illuminati Diamond. 117 Robert
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Macri wheeled her camera toward the
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figuratively. The ultimate infiltra
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down here!” The camerlegno looked
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others. His face showing total focu
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122 Inside the chopper, the whine o
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downward, each person in his or her
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The antimatter canister was locked
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toward the soft, darkened expanse o
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his ear and sat in appalled mystifi
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even allowing a balloting, I would
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him murdered!” The camerlegno tur
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If not you, God had challenged, the
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is no light. Without evil, there is
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“There is no risk when God is at
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Advocate” was the authority when
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alone and defeated on the altar. Mo
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looking back up the stairs. God’s
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Great Elector.” Mortati smiled.
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Macri now hesitated as the man join
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helicopter?” Langdon felt a rush
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