书名：Angels & Demons 天使与魔鬼

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数850

作者：Dan Brown

出版社名称：Corgi

出版时间：2009

语种：英文

ISBN：9780552161268

商品尺寸：11.1 x 3.7 x 17.7 cm

包装：平装

页数：620 （以实物为准）

在《达芬奇密码》（The Da Vinci Code）还未窜上畅销榜之前，Dan Brown的旧作一直不能算是热门书。Angles & Demons可以说是《达芬奇密码》的前传，也是他所有的书中科幻味颇重的一本。他的主角也就是出现在《达芬奇密码》中的符号学家兰登，只不过兰登这次要破的案子，可不是跟名画有关的，而是瑞典实验室的一位物理学家被谋杀，他的突破性成果——一个能量可与核能相比的物质被偷，抽丝剥茧竟然发现这是一桩与梵蒂岗有关的阴谋……英文原版，适合英文专业学生研读，也推荐给想要提高英语水平的语言学习者。 推荐理由：1.丹·布朗，世界畅销书作家、悬疑大师，作品被翻译为52种语言，并屡屡创下书市记录； 2.《天使与魔鬼》这一部知识型悬疑小说开辟了小说创作的新时代，同时也奠定了丹·布朗在小说界的地位； 3.与《达·芬奇密码》有着相同主人公，同样位居《纽约时报》畅销榜榜首的作品《天使与魔鬼》直接将科学和宗教的论战作为小说的主题，把人性与神性、宗教与科学的碰撞与融合揭露得淋漓尽致； 4.清晰而内敛的笔法，丰富多元的知识及其精彩刺激的故事情节构筑成一个庞大且错综复杂的体系，实为难得一见的“有深度小说”； 5.英文原版，无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。 AN ANCIENT SECRET BROTHERHOOD. A DEVASTATING NEW WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION. AN UNTHINKABLE TARGET. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofThe Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all. Critics have praised the exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit found in Brown's remarkable thrillers featuring Robert Langdon. An explosive international suspense, Angels & Demons marks this hero's first adventure as it careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. "A no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller...A heck of a good read" (Amazon.co.uk) "A breathless, real-time adventure... " (San Francisco Chronicle)

虔诚的上帝信徒——欧洲原子核研究组织的杰出科学家列奥纳多·维特勒毕生致力于以科学的手段证明神的存在。他和其养女、神秘妩媚的科学家维特多利亚在实验室里成功地制造出了一种极其强大的能量——反物质。 在这个重大发现尚未对外公布时，列奥纳多在实验室里惨遭杀害，一颗眼珠被凶手挖走，胸口上赫然印着一个神秘的标记——“光照派”！更令人震惊的是，藏在地下的反物质不翼而飞。哈佛大学符号学专家罗伯特·兰登应欧洲原子核研究组织首领之邀，前来调查这个神秘的符号。就在他到达的当天，失踪的反物质在梵蒂冈城地下某处被人发现。离开了实验室的反物质会在二十四小时之后自行爆炸。这天正是天主教教皇选举日，来自世界各地的天主教首领汇聚在梵蒂冈城，藏在地下的反物质就如同一枚定时炸弹，如不能及时找到，整个梵蒂冈城便会在顷刻间灰飞烟灭。 形势刻不容缓，兰登与维特多利亚一起踏上了前往梵蒂冈的冒险之旅…… World-renowned Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

丹·布朗（Dan Brown）（1964— ）美国畅销作家，毕业于阿默斯特大学，曾是一名英语教师。一九九六年开始写作，先后推出了《数字城堡》《骗局》《天使与魔鬼》《达·芬奇密码》《失落的秘符》和《地狱》几部小说。 Dan Brown is an American author of thriller fiction who is best known for the 2003 bestselling novelThe Da Vinci Code.And he isalsothe bestselling author ofDigital Fortress,Angels & Demons, andDeception Point.

High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza, a young womanlaughed and called down to him.‘Robert, hurry up!I knew I should have married ayounger man!’ Her smile was magic. He struggled to keep up, but his legs felt like stone.‘Wait,’ he begged.‘Please…’ As he climbed, his vision began to blur. There was a thundering in his ears. I must reach her!But when he looked up again, the woman had disappeared. In her place stood an old man with rotting teeth. The man stared down, curling his lips into a lonely grimace. Then he let out a scream of anguish that resounded across the desert. Robert Langdon awoke with a start from his nightmare. The phone beside his bed was ringing. Dazed, he picked up the receiver. ‘Hello?’ ‘I’m looking for Robert Langdon,’ a man’s voice said. Langdon sat up in his empty bed and tried to clear his mind.‘This…is Robert Langdon.’ He squinted at his digital clock. It was 5.18 a.m. ‘I must see you immediately.’ ‘Who is this?’