The only hint is a high-tech biohazard container, and inside, an optical device that projects the “Map of Hell” – Botticelli’s Abyss of Hell, inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. The story is all about Langdon unravelling a mystery, as Elizabeth Sinskey, The head of the World Health Organization hires Langdon to find Zobrist’s virus. After a few days, eminent Harvard Symbologist, Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed in Florence, with mild amnesia, no recollection of where he is or how he got there.Ī killer immediately breaks in the hospital to finish him, and Langdon escapes with the enigmatic doctor Sienna Brooks with whom he solves hidden mysteries, connecting the dots of symbology, just in the nick of time to ward off an apocalypse plotted by crazed men. “Inferno” is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “the divine comedy”, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by souls trapped between life and death.Īll artwork, literature, science, and historical references in this novel are real emphasizing Brown’s intelligence in which way he relates these true facts to his thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you’re done with the book! The book opens with the suicide of famous genetic engineer Bertrand Zobrist, a scientific genius who jumps to his death from a historical building in Florence.
He lives in New England with his wife, Blythe. Dan Brown is the of “The Da Vinci code,” one of the most widely read novels of all time, as well as two other international best sellers featuring Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon, “The lost symbol” and “Angels and demons”.
He is a graduate of Amherst College and Philips Exeter academy. Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination for science and religion which paved way for the art of writing as these themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. Dan Brown was born in a family of three, brought up by a great mathematics teacher and a church organist, his parents in New Hampshire, USA.
Inferno (2013) is a breathless race-against-time thriller by America’s renowned author Dan Brown. 2013 Transworld Publishers –London First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Bantam Press – an imprint of Transworld Publishers. Inferno “Seek and ye shall find” Publishing details: 14.
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