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Title:
Inferno
Genre:
Mystery
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Series:
Robert Langdon
Series Order:
4
Binding:
Audiobook
Edition:
1st
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
445
Number of Chapters:
104
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:02:01
Synopsis:
Inferno:
Author: Dan Brown
Country: USA, United Kingdom
Language: English
Series: Robert Langdon #4
Genres: Mystery, Detective fiction, Conspiracy fiction, Thriller
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication date: May 14, 2013
Media type: Print, e-book
Pages: 485 pages
ISBN: 0385537859
OCLC Number: 824723329
Preceded by: The Lost Symbol
Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by renowned American writer Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. The book was released on May 14, 2013 by Doubleday.
Plot:
Harvard art history professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital room with a head wound and no memory of the last few days. His last memory is walking in Harvard, but the hospital is in Florence. Sienna Brooks, a doctor, tells him he suffered a concussion from being grazed by a bullet, and had stumbled into the emergency ward. Suddenly, a woman dressed like a punk named Vayentha breaks in, shoots another doctor, and approaches the room. Sienna grabs Robert and they flee to her apartment.
Robert finds a biohazard cylinder in his jacket. He decides to call the US consulate. They tell him they’ve been looking for him and want his location. He gives them a location near the apartment out of respect for Sienna’s privacy. Then he looks from the apartment window and, to his dismay, he sees Vayentha pull up to the location he gave and go in holding her pistol. The US government wants to kill him, and Robert’s only chance for survival is to figure out what the biohazard cylinder is. He opens the cylinder and finds a medieval bone cylinder fitted with a hi-tech projector that projects a modified version of Botticelli’s Map of Hell. Suddenly, soldiers dressed in black begin raiding the building. Sienna and Robert narrowly escape.
Robert and Sienna head toward the Old City because the cylinder must have something to do with Dante, but they find that local police and Italian military police have sealed the bridges and are searching for them. They run into the Boboli Gardens. The solution to the Map of Hell occurs to Robert: ten letters have been added to the ten layers of the Malebolge, and the layers have been rearranged. Moving them back yields ”CERCA TROVA”, a reference to Battle of Marciano by Vasari, located in Palazzo Vecchio. The mysterious black soldiers appear again. Robert and Sienna get into the Old City using the Vasari Corridor.
The director of the museum that houses Battle of Marciano, Marta Alvarez, recognizes Robert because apparently Robert and Il Dumoino met with her last night and asked to see Dante’s death mask, which sits in a room behind Battle of Marciano. Il Duomino is the director of Florence Cathedral. Robert realizes he is retracing his own steps from last night. Marta takes Robert and Sienna to the mask and find that it’s gone. They look at security footage and Robert sees himself and Il Duomino stealing the mask. The museum guards turn on Robert and Sienna. Il Duomino’s secretary calls Robert at this point and tells him Il Duomino died of a heart attack, and his last words were ”Paradise 25”.
Robert and Sienna escape the museum guards but the black soldiers begin raiding the building. They cross the attic over the Apotheosis of Cosimo I, where Sienna pushes Vayentha off and kills her. The words ”Paradise 25” refer to the Florence Baptistry. Robert and Sienna find the Dante mask there and the riddle written by the mask’s current owner, a billionaire geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist. A man named Jonathan Ferris claiming to be from the World Health Organization comes and helps them escape the black soldiers. They follow the riddle to Venice, but Jonathan suddenly falls unconscious, and Robert is captured by the black soldiers. Sienna escapes.
Robert is taken to Elizabeth Sinskey, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and receives an extensive explanation of what is going on: Bertrand Zobrist, who committed suicide a week ago, was a mad scientist and Dante fanatic who engineered a new black death to cleanse the world of overpopulation. Elizabeth raided Zobrist’s deposit box, found the cylinder, and flew Robert to Florence to follow the clues. But Robert stopped calling in after meeting with Marta and Il Duomino, and the WHO feared he betrayed them and was working with Bertrand’s supporters to unleash the plague. The black soldiers are WHO’s SWAT team and they never meant to kill Robert, but only to bring him back.
However, Bertrand had paid a shadowy, unethical consulting group called The Consortium to protect the bone cylinder until a certain date. When Elizabeth took it away, they were obligated to protect whatever the bone cylinder pointed to. They kidnapped Robert after the meeting with Marta and Il Duomo, but Robert hadn’t yet solved the whole trial. They then gave Robert drugs to erase his short-term memory, created a fake head wound, and staged a fake hospital awakening, gunfight, and escape so Robert would desperately solve it. Sienna, Vayentha, and Jonathan were all actors working for The Consortium. The call to the US consulate was also staged. Just now, however, the leader of The Consortium decided to start cooperating with the WHO because he became aware that he is supporting a bio-terrorism plot.
Sienna goes rogue and The Consortium realizes she was a secret supporter of Bertrand. She knows where the plague is now because Robert solved the riddle, and she is going to unleash it manually. Robert, the WHO, and The Consortium team up to stop her by going to the riddle’s actual location, which isn’t Venice but Istanbul, since Enrico Dandolo, the Doge of Venice, was buried there. They go to the Hagia Sophia, but find the plague is in the Cistern. They close in on the Cistern but Sienna is already there. The bag that holds the plague has been broken, infecting all the tourists inside. Sienna runs out of the Cistern shouting ”fire”, which makes the tourists stampede out into the city.
It is then discovered Sienna didn’t puncture the bag. The bag was water soluble and had dissolved a week ago in the Cistern waters, and the whole world is already infected. What the virus does is modify human DNA so that one in three people are now infertile, and one in three newborn babies, and so on. Moreover, Sienna was trying to stop the virus herself, but didn’t trust the WHO because samples of that virus would certainly find their way into weapons research.
The leader of The Consortium tries to escape WHO custody by sending men to dress up as Turkish police and arrest him, but he is caught later by real Turkish police. It is implied that The Consortium will be investigated and ruined. Sienna receives amnesty in exchange for working with the WHO to address the crisis. As a medical doctor and a published transhumanist, her advice will be useful.
The DNA modification has no cure. Even with future technology, changing the human genome back will always be hazardous. The human race, therefore, has been forced into a new age of self-understanding.
Marketing:
Brown released the book’s title on his website on January 15, 2013, after prompting readers to help reveal a digital mosaic using social media posts, and revealed the cover in late February of 2013. The cover depicts the famous Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore located in Florence, Italy. He also published a sneak preview of Inferno along with a free ebook of The Da Vinci Code on March 17. The ebook was distributed for free to readers worldwide through online e-book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble for free till March 24, 2013. Transworld publishers, the official UK publisher of Dan Brown books, have also released the official book trailer through YouTube.
Inferno has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish for simultaneous release. The publishers hired a team of 11 translators who worked on the project at the headquarters of Mondadori in Milan between February and April 2012. They were reportedly sequestered in a basement, and worked intensively under strict security and secrecy.
Factual Inaccuracies:
In Chapter 10, Brown mentions a quote by Robert Oppenheimer at the moment when the first atomic bomb was tested. The exact quote is - ”Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”. Brown incorrectly refers to this as ”Vishnu, destroyer of worlds”.
Companion books:
One companion book to Brown’s Inferno novel has already been published, titled Templar Inferno: Knights of Rebellion. Another book has been announced for publication in June of 2013, titled Inferno Decoded.
Author: Dan Brown
Country: USA, United Kingdom
Language: English
Series: Robert Langdon #4
Genres: Mystery, Detective fiction, Conspiracy fiction, Thriller
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication date: May 14, 2013
Media type: Print, e-book
Pages: 485 pages
ISBN: 0385537859
OCLC Number: 824723329
Preceded by: The Lost Symbol
Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by renowned American writer Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. The book was released on May 14, 2013 by Doubleday.
Plot:
Harvard art history professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital room with a head wound and no memory of the last few days. His last memory is walking in Harvard, but the hospital is in Florence. Sienna Brooks, a doctor, tells him he suffered a concussion from being grazed by a bullet, and had stumbled into the emergency ward. Suddenly, a woman dressed like a punk named Vayentha breaks in, shoots another doctor, and approaches the room. Sienna grabs Robert and they flee to her apartment.
Robert finds a biohazard cylinder in his jacket. He decides to call the US consulate. They tell him they’ve been looking for him and want his location. He gives them a location near the apartment out of respect for Sienna’s privacy. Then he looks from the apartment window and, to his dismay, he sees Vayentha pull up to the location he gave and go in holding her pistol. The US government wants to kill him, and Robert’s only chance for survival is to figure out what the biohazard cylinder is. He opens the cylinder and finds a medieval bone cylinder fitted with a hi-tech projector that projects a modified version of Botticelli’s Map of Hell. Suddenly, soldiers dressed in black begin raiding the building. Sienna and Robert narrowly escape.
Robert and Sienna head toward the Old City because the cylinder must have something to do with Dante, but they find that local police and Italian military police have sealed the bridges and are searching for them. They run into the Boboli Gardens. The solution to the Map of Hell occurs to Robert: ten letters have been added to the ten layers of the Malebolge, and the layers have been rearranged. Moving them back yields ”CERCA TROVA”, a reference to Battle of Marciano by Vasari, located in Palazzo Vecchio. The mysterious black soldiers appear again. Robert and Sienna get into the Old City using the Vasari Corridor.
The director of the museum that houses Battle of Marciano, Marta Alvarez, recognizes Robert because apparently Robert and Il Dumoino met with her last night and asked to see Dante’s death mask, which sits in a room behind Battle of Marciano. Il Duomino is the director of Florence Cathedral. Robert realizes he is retracing his own steps from last night. Marta takes Robert and Sienna to the mask and find that it’s gone. They look at security footage and Robert sees himself and Il Duomino stealing the mask. The museum guards turn on Robert and Sienna. Il Duomino’s secretary calls Robert at this point and tells him Il Duomino died of a heart attack, and his last words were ”Paradise 25”.
Robert and Sienna escape the museum guards but the black soldiers begin raiding the building. They cross the attic over the Apotheosis of Cosimo I, where Sienna pushes Vayentha off and kills her. The words ”Paradise 25” refer to the Florence Baptistry. Robert and Sienna find the Dante mask there and the riddle written by the mask’s current owner, a billionaire geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist. A man named Jonathan Ferris claiming to be from the World Health Organization comes and helps them escape the black soldiers. They follow the riddle to Venice, but Jonathan suddenly falls unconscious, and Robert is captured by the black soldiers. Sienna escapes.
Robert is taken to Elizabeth Sinskey, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and receives an extensive explanation of what is going on: Bertrand Zobrist, who committed suicide a week ago, was a mad scientist and Dante fanatic who engineered a new black death to cleanse the world of overpopulation. Elizabeth raided Zobrist’s deposit box, found the cylinder, and flew Robert to Florence to follow the clues. But Robert stopped calling in after meeting with Marta and Il Duomino, and the WHO feared he betrayed them and was working with Bertrand’s supporters to unleash the plague. The black soldiers are WHO’s SWAT team and they never meant to kill Robert, but only to bring him back.
However, Bertrand had paid a shadowy, unethical consulting group called The Consortium to protect the bone cylinder until a certain date. When Elizabeth took it away, they were obligated to protect whatever the bone cylinder pointed to. They kidnapped Robert after the meeting with Marta and Il Duomo, but Robert hadn’t yet solved the whole trial. They then gave Robert drugs to erase his short-term memory, created a fake head wound, and staged a fake hospital awakening, gunfight, and escape so Robert would desperately solve it. Sienna, Vayentha, and Jonathan were all actors working for The Consortium. The call to the US consulate was also staged. Just now, however, the leader of The Consortium decided to start cooperating with the WHO because he became aware that he is supporting a bio-terrorism plot.
Sienna goes rogue and The Consortium realizes she was a secret supporter of Bertrand. She knows where the plague is now because Robert solved the riddle, and she is going to unleash it manually. Robert, the WHO, and The Consortium team up to stop her by going to the riddle’s actual location, which isn’t Venice but Istanbul, since Enrico Dandolo, the Doge of Venice, was buried there. They go to the Hagia Sophia, but find the plague is in the Cistern. They close in on the Cistern but Sienna is already there. The bag that holds the plague has been broken, infecting all the tourists inside. Sienna runs out of the Cistern shouting ”fire”, which makes the tourists stampede out into the city.
It is then discovered Sienna didn’t puncture the bag. The bag was water soluble and had dissolved a week ago in the Cistern waters, and the whole world is already infected. What the virus does is modify human DNA so that one in three people are now infertile, and one in three newborn babies, and so on. Moreover, Sienna was trying to stop the virus herself, but didn’t trust the WHO because samples of that virus would certainly find their way into weapons research.
The leader of The Consortium tries to escape WHO custody by sending men to dress up as Turkish police and arrest him, but he is caught later by real Turkish police. It is implied that The Consortium will be investigated and ruined. Sienna receives amnesty in exchange for working with the WHO to address the crisis. As a medical doctor and a published transhumanist, her advice will be useful.
The DNA modification has no cure. Even with future technology, changing the human genome back will always be hazardous. The human race, therefore, has been forced into a new age of self-understanding.
Marketing:
Brown released the book’s title on his website on January 15, 2013, after prompting readers to help reveal a digital mosaic using social media posts, and revealed the cover in late February of 2013. The cover depicts the famous Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore located in Florence, Italy. He also published a sneak preview of Inferno along with a free ebook of The Da Vinci Code on March 17. The ebook was distributed for free to readers worldwide through online e-book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble for free till March 24, 2013. Transworld publishers, the official UK publisher of Dan Brown books, have also released the official book trailer through YouTube.
Inferno has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish for simultaneous release. The publishers hired a team of 11 translators who worked on the project at the headquarters of Mondadori in Milan between February and April 2012. They were reportedly sequestered in a basement, and worked intensively under strict security and secrecy.
Factual Inaccuracies:
In Chapter 10, Brown mentions a quote by Robert Oppenheimer at the moment when the first atomic bomb was tested. The exact quote is - ”Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”. Brown incorrectly refers to this as ”Vishnu, destroyer of worlds”.
Companion books:
One companion book to Brown’s Inferno novel has already been published, titled Templar Inferno: Knights of Rebellion. Another book has been announced for publication in June of 2013, titled Inferno Decoded.
Author:
Dan Brown
Show More
Publisher:
Arqueiro
Barcode:
9788580411522
Country:
United States
Publication Date:
2013-05-01
Publication Year:
2013
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
Finnish
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$10.44
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-01-08
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:02:01
