Inferno
A Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Publisher Description
THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS
“A book-length scavenger hunt . . . jam-packed with tricks.” —The New York Times
“[A] cinematic blockbuster.” —USA Today
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written: Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno.
Look for more Robert Langdon novels:
The Da Vinci Code
The Lost Symbol
Origin
The Secret of Secrets
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this instalment of the popular Robert Langdon series, Dan Brown crafts a compelling mystery inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Professor Langdon has just awoken in a hospital bed in Italy when he’s thrown headfirst into another plot that will require his wonderfully arcane symbologist knowledge to solve. Narrowly avoiding an attempted assassination, he and one of his doctors—Sienna Brooks, who happens to be one of the smartest people alive—embark on a breathless race to unravel a seismic conspiracy. Brown pulls us into the action with immaculate scene setting, immersing us in the architecture and atmosphere of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul. We loved watching Langdon follow the clues, from great works of Renaissance art to the history of the black plague to a chilling faction of modern transhumanism. Even if you’re new to this series, Inferno is a great place to start.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The threat of world overpopulation is the latest assignment for Brown's art historian and accidental sleuth Robert Langdon. Awakening in a Florence hospital with no memory of the preceding 36 hours, Langdon and an attractive attending physician with an oversized intellect are immediately pursued by an ominous underground organization and the Italian police. Detailed tours of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul mean to establish setting, but instead bog down the story and border on showoffmanship. Relying on a deceased villain's trail of clues threaded through the text of Dante's The Divine Comedy, the duo attempt to unravel the events leading up to Langdon's amnesia and thwart a global genocide scheme. Suspension of disbelief is required as miraculous coincidences pile upon pure luck. Near the three-quarters point everything established gets upended and Brown, hoping to draw us in deeper, nearly drives us out. Though the prose is fast-paced and sharp, the burdensome dialogue only serves plot and back story, and is interspersed with unfortunate attempts at folksy humor. It's hard not to appreciate a present day mega-selling thriller that attempts a refresher course in Italian literature and European history. But the real mystery is in the book's denouement and how Brown can possibly bring his hero back for more.
