After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.

"After working the restaurant beat for years, restaurant critic and writer Wyatt Williams decided to find Springer Mountain farm, to see just what, if anything, made their chicken so special. What he found instead was an elaborate marketing scheme. After his discovery, Williams spent a year dedicated to understanding what it meant to work and live meat. He moved to a chicken farm, learned to hunt his own game, worked on a slaughterhouse kill floor,...