Inferno by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology, awakens in an Italian hospital feeling disoriented and having no memory of the previous 36 hours, including where the horrific object hidden in his things came from. He and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to leave because a determined female assassin is pursuing them through Florence. They must embark on a perilous quest to decipher a set of codes created by a brilliant scientist whose preoccupation with the end of the world is rivalled only by his love for one of literature’s most famous works, Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno.
In this lavishly engaging thriller, Dan Brown has lifted the bar once more by fusing cutting-edge technology with classical Italian art, history, and literature.
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The narrative opens with a somnambulant Robert Langdon awakening at a hospital in Florence with no memory of his previous location or method of travel. As the assassin, Vayentha arrives and begins shooting the medical workers, her real target—Langdon—the situation heats up quickly.
He is helped in his escape by Sienna, a doctor who is urgently trying to save the professor from the sudden deaths that so many medical personnel have been experiencing while treating Robert Langdon’s apparent amnesia. They dart through the streets. While Vayentha pursues him, Langdon, who is still dizzy from the drug, falls more than once.
After sprinting through a maze of winding European streets and alleyways, Sienna finally assists Langdon into a waiting cab. They then accelerate away while dodging bullets from an assassin’s weapon in the backseat. We’ve learned to expect dramatic beginnings from Robert Langdon’s books, and author Dan Brown never disappoints with Inferno.
The story focuses on a guy with dubious motivations trying to save the world from itself, and Robert Langdon, Sienna, and the head of the World Health Organization are left to piece together his devious plan.
The Da Vinci Code, however, served as the foundation for Inferno. The protagonist of the novel, Robert Langdon, is accused of a crime, and there is a mystery surrounding him as well as a bizarre plot that can only be solved by the world’s most brilliant art professor with a preference for symbolism. But, this tale is not The Da Vinci Code.
