"the antimatter canister was locked out of reach. It counted relentlessly downward as the chopper shot upward. Fifty seconds. Higher. Higher. Langdon spun wildly in the cabin. trying to make sense of what he had just seen. Forty-five seconds. He dug under seats searching for another parachute. Forty seconds. There was none! There had to be an option! Thirty-five seconds. He raced to the open doorway of the chopper and stood in the raging wind, gazing down at the lights of Rome below. Thirty-two seconds.
And then he made the choice.
The unbelievable choice..." (pg 505).
How the hell do you make decision to jump out of a chopper when it's hundreds of feet in the air? I could not, would not, and should not ever do anything that could get me in that position. It probably didn't help that the canister was so close to the end of time mark. It's always hard to make decisions or even think when you have a count down to anything let alone complete annihilation. Who would have ever been able to make that decision without a whole lot of guts and fight or flight instinct. Brown really throws curve balls at you when you read this book, he just suddenly changes the path that the characters are on or reveals something that you didn't see coming your way. Life is often like that with side swipes and sudden changes that no one ever expects.
The book holds a whole rivalry between the Illuminati who wanted the down fall of the catholic church and the catholic church. The fact that the antimatter can be smuggled into the vatican and palace so that it can annihilate the whole of vatican city in one fell swoop is a little unsettling or frighting which ever stand you take if fine.
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This book is really good! I remember when I read it, I flew through it. I hope you like it just as much as I did. When you try to put yourself in his position it's so hard to think about what you would do. This book is very suspenseful. I'm glad other people are reading it too
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