Hell

Author's name: Dan Brown

The English-language version sold four million copies in six weeks! After The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown became an international bestselling author. He masterfully blends codes, symbols, art, and history into thrilling novels that captivate hundreds of millions of people around the world. In this new novel, "Inferno," Dan Brown takes his readers to the heart of Italy... leading them through scenes inspired by Dante's epic, or Divine Comedy, one of the most important and terrifying literary classics in history. Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology at Harvard University, awakens in the middle of the night, suffering from a head wound, to discover he is lying in a hospital with no memory of what happened to him during the last 36 hours or the source of the horrific object the doctors discovered among his luggage. Langdon's world is thrown into chaos, and he is forced to flee through the alleys of Florence, accompanied by a kind young woman named Sienna Brooks, whose clever maneuvering saves his life. He soon discovers that he possesses a set of dangerous codes created by a brilliant scientist. The story accelerates through famous archaeological sites, such as the Palazzo Vecchio, and Langdon and Brooks discover a network of ancient catacombs, as well as a terrifying new scientific paradigm that could either improve the quality of life on Earth... or destroy it. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a formidable adversary while clinging to a mystery that takes him to a world of classical art, secret passages, and futuristic science, trying to discover the answers and determine who he can trust... before the Great Depression.