October Book Club selection
I finished reading the book today. There is a lot about the book that I'd forgotten. I read it in May 2013 when it first came out. I remembered where it was ending, in Turkey and the main theme, a man creating a plague to 'solve' human overpopulation, but did not remember many of the details. The book features Robert Langdon the professor who specializes in symbology. He was pressed into service by Dr. Sinsky who is the head of the World Health Organization. Robert Langdon is assisted by a young very intelligent Doctor, Sienna, after having apparently been shot and suffered amnesia. For much of the book I did not understand why there was the series of clues for him to follow. This was explained late in the book. The Evil Genius who created the plague wanted to take credit for it. So he had arranged a series of clues for the WHO director to follow that took them from Florence, Italy to Venice, Italy and finally to Istanbul, Turkey. Dan Brown interspersed a lot of history and architecture in his story. Near the end of the book everything turns upside down and what we imagine was happening was explained another way. I enjoyed the book. It is typical of Dan Brown books. Through an eiditic memory (of visual images) and his intellect he is able to solve "the problem" with the help of Sienna who also has a superior intellect. I won't give away the final twist at the end when the race is on to stop the plague from being released.
