But just as he’s giving his little PowerPoint presentation, an assassin shoots him and within the hour Langdon is on the run with Ambra (the aforementioned future Queen of Spain) in “a deadly game of cat-and-mouse”. Langdon’s friend, an Elon Muskish playboy tech genius called Edmond Kirsch, is giving a talk at the Guggenheim at which he promises to reveal the secret to life, the universe and everything – and which he promises will make all the world’s religions redundant at a stroke. And the four aspects of his personality are all present and correct: the claustrophobia, the eidetic memory, the tendency to think in italics (“ What secret had Edmond unveiled?”), and of course the Mickey Mouse watch, which I at first thought had been retired for, say, a Tissot – but there it is on page 376. As usual our hero has a “vivacious, strong-minded beauty” chastely in tow (despite being the future Queen of Spain, Ambra gets called by her first name our hero is always “Langdon”).
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