The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Dark brown, the #1 NY Times bestselling writer of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno-now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.

An ancient key brotherhood. A devastating new tool of damage. An unthinkable focus on.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon can be summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest off a murdered physicist. What he discovers is certainly unimaginable: a dangerous vendetta against the Catholic Cathedral by a centuries-old underground organization-the Illuminati. Eager to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins causes in Rome with the stunning and secret scientist Vittoria Vetra. Jointly they go on a frantic hunt through covered crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, as well as the most secretive vault on the planet…the long-forgotten Illuminati liar.