Origin by Dan Brown

In this 5th adventure of Robert Langdon, Robert is invited to an elaborate presentation about a revolutionary scientific discovery of one of his former students, and strident atheist, Edmond Kirsch.  Right as Kirsch is about to make his announcement a shot rings out and Edmond falls dead.  Robert teams up with a super intelligent AI, and a beautiful museum curator to try to find a way to reveal Edmond's announcement to the world.  To do that they have to discover the password to Edmond's state of the art super computer before a radical Christian assassin finds them first.

I read The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons years ago. Both books had a bit too much sexual innuendo and violence for my taste. I'm not sure why, then, I picked up this book, but it turned out that it was cleaner in both respects than the other two.  It was quite an entertaining read, with lots of action, intrigue, and strong, complex characters. The humanities geek in me also loves all the descriptions of art and architecture in each of the Robert Langdon novels. Readers should be aware that this book has a pretty strong anti-religious vibe to it, but the author ends on note of faith
that redeems it a bit.  (2017, 463 p)