Langdon hurried to maintain up. “So,” Kohler asked. “Do you nevertheless doubt the Illuminati’s involvement?” Langdon had no thought what to think anymore. Vetra’s spiritual affiliations had been absolutely troubling, and yet Langdon could now not convey himself to abandon each shred of tutorial proof he had ever researched. Besides, there was once the eye… “I still maintain,” Langdon said, more forcefully than he intended. “that the Illuminati are not accountable for this murder. The lacking eye is proof.” “What?” “Random mutilation,” Langdon explained, “is very… un–Illuminati. Cult specialists see desultory defacement from inexperienced fringe sects—zealots who commit random acts of terrorism—but the Illuminati have continually been extra deliberate.” “Deliberate? Surgically removi

