(5) = Best; (4) = Better; (3) = Good; (2) = Fair; (1) = OK
These abstracts serve as reminders to myself; they serve to "jog" my memory on what a book was all about. That's all. This is not a literary critique, not a social commentary, and certainly nothing profound to warrant further discussion.
(5) = means that I really enjoyed this book; (1) = means I finished reading it but wonder if my time could have been better spent elsewhere.
Connelly brings back his favorite hero, Harry Bosch, where he is on trial in a Civil Suit brought by the widow of a serial killer whom he had shot. All the evidence seems to stack up against him as a “rogue cop” who shot a defenseless engineer husband of three kids. But Harry is convinced that Norman Church is the serial killer. Just as his trial was to begin a cryptic note appears at the police station telling of a body buried in concrete and Harry is called to that scene to investigate. The mysterious note appears to be similar to the ones the serial killer use to leave behind each body. Harry concludes there must be a copy cat killer out there. The Prosecuting Attorney is convinced Harry shot the wrong person and the killer is still out there. She is convinced that Harry is hiding the evidence of the Blonde in concrete as that will prove she is correct.
The case takes us through the prostitution world in Los Angeles as Harry tries to find the identify of the body in concrete and in the process deduces that there were two killers based on the evidence uncovered thus far. This is an interesting read. Connolly holds your attention well. (3).
Dan Brown has a penchant for things ancient related to the Roman Catholic Church. In the front of the book the author says that all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual (as are their exact locations). They can still be seen today. The brotherhood of the ILLUMINATI is also factual. Really (!?).
There is a secret power struggle going on within the Catholic Church as the old Pope had died. There is enmity between the centuries old underground organization, the ILLUMINATI and the Church. The college of Cardinals have gathered to vote on the next Pope; four of them are kidnapped by a hired assassin. He had already killed a physicist and stolen a cylinder of ANTIMATTER the scientist and his daughter had created in their secret laboratory. Their discovery was supposed to be a secret. How did the assassin learn of it and who was the Conspirator who hired the assassin?
Robert Langdon, a world-renown Harvard symbologist, was summoned to the Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of the murdered physicist. He discovers a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church but who was behind it all? Of course, Vittoria Vetra, the scientist’s daughter is beautiful and brilliant and she and Robert eventually become more than friend and colleague as they rush to Rome in search of the cylinder. They have less than six hours before the magnetic field in the cylinder runs down and the antimatter explodes. Dan Brown glues you to the seat as we move from one episode to another. Of course they find the cylinder but you will have to read on to find out what happens (5)
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