Inferno: A Novel

Dan Brown

May 2013 · Robert Langdon Series Book 4 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • 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.

“One hell of a good read.... As close as a book can come to a summertime cinematic blockbuster.” —USA Today

“A diverting thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly

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.
 
Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this captivating thriller.

Ratings and reviews

Inferno is a page turner in the worst of ways. You will surely keep on reading, wondering how the same man who wrote The DaVinci Code could also pen the atrocity which is this book. Lazy writing, indefensible tangents on panoramas and vistas, ridiculous condescension to the reader's intelligence, vomited diatribes on dead people that have no relation to the plot, all plague Inferno in much the same way that Brown's poorly choiced villains plague his favorite protagonist, Robert Langdon, who is, incredibly, more one dimensional and caricature like than ever. I'm being generous and giving it two stars, only because, conceivably, one can think much worse books deserving of only one. And honestly this book doesn't belong in that company, though it barely escapes that fate.

From : CA A pretty boring read that climaxes with nothing.... Felt like a .96¢ paperback written by an Italian student who really loves Italy but has never been there... The 20 pages Dan Brown actually wrote as opposed to the travel guide stuff he included - you could feel his boredom.... This is not the Dan Brown to get excited for.... Those books already came out with da vinci code... This is a contract fulfillment book & hopefully the last book by Dan Brown.. I almost cried I was so bored sometimes.

It is very enjoyable...UNTIL the very last twist. I had been so disappointed in The Lost Symbol that I didn't hold out too much hope for this one. BUT, what a nice surprise! Inferno is actually very good, makes you impossible to put it down. It picks up the same formula Dan Brown used in The Da Vinci Code, which keeps you on edge for most of the story. And THEN, the ending comes. I mean I had loved everything about the book just until that very last twist at the end, which kills the entire adventure entirely, makes the ending profoundly anticlimactic. For the people who have read the book, I'm not talking about the twist where the light on the device goes red in the cave. That twist was the best thing ever! And then Dan Brown had to put in the next twist, which I found unnecessary and renders the whole story pointless. The movie was bad but Ron Howard actually did a good job of removing that twist and I thank him for that. If Dan Brown ever revises his book, I wish he would just rewrite those last 3 chapters.

About the author

DAN BROWN is the author of numerous #1 international bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code, Inferno, The Lost Symbol, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, and Digital Fortress.