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At the beginning of ''Angels and Demons'', Robert Langdon is called to CERN headquarters in Switzerland to find out the religious Symbol ogical relationship to the murder of a scientist, Leonardo Vetra. When he arrives he starts a journey to the Vatican to unlock the secrets of the Illuminati , an anti-religious Secret Society which, according to the plot, are deeply ingrained into most global institutions, political, economical and religious. Langdon solves many codes and mysteries to track down the heinous murderer of the scientist, along with the reason why everything happened.

At the beginning of ''The Da Vinci Code'', Langdon is in Paris to give a lecture on his work. Having made an appointment to meet with Jacques Saunière , the Curator of the Louvre , he is startled to find the French police at his hotel room door. They inform him that Saunière has been murdered and they would like his immediate assistance at the Louvre to help them solve the crime. Unknown to Langdon, he is in fact the prime suspect in the murder and has been summoned to the scene of the crime so that the police may extract a confession from him. He spends the rest of the novel dodging the police and trying to solve the mystery of a secret ancient society which was led by Leonardo da Vinci himself, the Priory Of Sion . At the end of the novel, Langdon uncovers the supposed mystery behind Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail .


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