Inferno is a novel released on Mai 14, 2013, written by the US-American author Dan Brown. The thriller is the forth book in the Robert Langdon series. It follows the international bestsellers Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.
The main characters are Robert Langdon, the doctor Sienna Brooks, a man just named “the provost” and the WHO-general director Elisabeth Kingsley.
The main part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, where the Harvard University professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital without any memory of the last two days, suffering from a head shot wound. As a women tries to kill him he and Sienna escape and tare trying to find out the reason for people obviously chasing Langdon. On their research, they find a strange object attached to Roberts belongings a map of hell based on Dantes novel “Inferno”, which leads them into the deep world of old florence and Dante, always chased by the authorities. As they find out the connection between Dante, “Inferno” and Bertrand Zobrist, a billionaire geneticist, they find out about a possible plague which is supposed to kill a big amount of the world’s population. Their research takes them, with the help of a strange assistant of Elisabeth Kingsley’s, further to Venice, where Robert and Sienna get separated as Robert get caught and Sienna escapes. Now, in the hands of their chasers, the hears the truth about the pursuit and Sienna, who was the love of the plagues creator Zobrist, dying from suicide a week ago in Florence. Now they have to fear that Sienna finds the plague earlier then they and helps to release the plague. The search goes on in Istanbul, Turkey, because Langdon’s first guess, Venice, was wrong. In a video, that Zobrist created short before his death, he specified the date of the release as the following day and gives the final clue to the location, the Hagia Sophia. There, they have to witness, that the bag, where the plague was held, is already broken and the plague released.
It discovers that Sienna didn’t brooke the bag, she even tried to stop the virus, but it was too late. She just didn’t want to cooperate with the WHO because she fears that some governments will use the information as a weapon. She also informs about the type of the virus, which changed the human race forever.
The main point of the book is by no mains gripped from pure air, as it is the world’s overpopulation and how the human race will go down on itself and also, how powerless and ignorant we are stopping it. (“The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called denial.”- Dan Brown, Inferno)
One other point is the danger of human ambition to improve ourselves mire and more not seeing what dangers for our society that would bring.
My point of view is that this book was truly amazing to read. It was like a blockbuster, just in a written form. Though it’s difficult to read, it was really exciting. I must admit that I read it twice to understand the entire plot and the connections and the second time, because not that much time passed, it got a bit boring but for my understanding it was worth it. The plot seemed to be based on a good research and true facts. That is one thing I truly admire Dan Brown for, because no matter how far from reality the story might be, the base has always something of historical facts in it. So if you’re interested in history, I can thoroughly recommend “Inferno” or any of the other Dan Brown novels.
So don’t hesitate and read the book and form yourself an opinion of this great book, because donÄt forget:
“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offence….a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve”
-Dan Brown, Inferno