Robert Langdon is back and this time he's bringing the full force of his slightly ponderous lateral thinking to the dark secrets of the Illuminati. After the death of a pope the cardinals lock themselves away to decide upon a successor, but it soon becomes clear there is a killer in their midst, and, as the bodies pile up, Langdon must follow the clues and race against time to uncover not only the murderer, but to find an ingenious bomb that will destroy the Vatican City. Apparently based on a v find out more...

Have any of you managed to dodge the book? Well for those lucky few the basic outline has symbologist Robert Langdon in search of the Holy Grail and Jesus Christ's last living descendant. Unfortunately for the unwitting Robert the shadows are littered with fanatical secret religious societies and before he knows what he's stumbled across he's running for his life, helped by the rather more able cryptologist, Sophie Neveu. The Da Vinci Code is a very big budget action adventure; ridiculous, over find out more...