Last night I read up to Chapter 30 of Angels & Demons 
. As I progressed through the story last night, I learn about the secret experiment that Vittoria and her father the priest/physicist were working on. They had been keeping it under the wraps for several months because they had only planned to reveal their work a few months later. They’ve recreated the big bang on a smaller scale. I recall that in real life, someone did really recreate the big bang on the news. I can’t remember whom. It didn’t matter much to me back then. Anyway, in this story, the scientists have created matter and anti-matter from the big bang. The energy produced by antimatter is so powerful that it can power up a town with electricity. However, if this antimatter falls in the wrong hands, it becomes a deadly weapon. Hmm. So is this fiction or fact? Gee…I don’t know but it is all very intriguing. Back to the story. The two scientists had created some anti-matter large enough to cause an explosion. They had stored it in their lab’s basement. The secret is only known to the 2 scientists but somehow, somebody knew about this anti-matter and murdered the priest/physicist to steal this antimatter. I stopped at the part where the director of CERN receives a call from some source that we still don’t know of at this point in the story. The missing canister containing the antimatter is in Rome. They have 24 hours to get to this canister before terrible things happen. (This is another good technique used by the writer. When the clock is ticking, the tension builds up. You can bet that the story will reach its climax at the point when the 24 hours is almost up by a few minutes) Then the director collapses because he didn’t take his medication. (He is ill and wheel chair bound). He then beckons to David Langdon and Vittoria to head to Rome before he is taken away by the paramedics. Good one there. With little information and a young Scientist, David Langdon, a university professor has to save Rome, just like that. Yep, that’s where I stopped. Every chapter has a cliffhanger without fail. Till the next intermittent book review…
. As I progressed through the story last night, I learn about the secret experiment that Vittoria and her father the priest/physicist were working on. They had been keeping it under the wraps for several months because they had only planned to reveal their work a few months later. They’ve recreated the big bang on a smaller scale. I recall that in real life, someone did really recreate the big bang on the news. I can’t remember whom. It didn’t matter much to me back then. Anyway, in this story, the scientists have created matter and anti-matter from the big bang. The energy produced by antimatter is so powerful that it can power up a town with electricity. However, if this antimatter falls in the wrong hands, it becomes a deadly weapon. Hmm. So is this fiction or fact? Gee…I don’t know but it is all very intriguing. Back to the story. The two scientists had created some anti-matter large enough to cause an explosion. They had stored it in their lab’s basement. The secret is only known to the 2 scientists but somehow, somebody knew about this anti-matter and murdered the priest/physicist to steal this antimatter. I stopped at the part where the director of CERN receives a call from some source that we still don’t know of at this point in the story. The missing canister containing the antimatter is in Rome. They have 24 hours to get to this canister before terrible things happen. (This is another good technique used by the writer. When the clock is ticking, the tension builds up. You can bet that the story will reach its climax at the point when the 24 hours is almost up by a few minutes) Then the director collapses because he didn’t take his medication. (He is ill and wheel chair bound). He then beckons to David Langdon and Vittoria to head to Rome before he is taken away by the paramedics. Good one there. With little information and a young Scientist, David Langdon, a university professor has to save Rome, just like that. Yep, that’s where I stopped. Every chapter has a cliffhanger without fail. Till the next intermittent book review…