Inferno by Dan Brown is the 4th book in a series of thriller and religious fiction books by author Dan Brown starring a professor of symbology at Harvard, Robert Langdon. At the beginning of the book, Langdon suddenly awakens in a hospital with no recollection of where he has been the past two days and what events occurred that led up to him being injured and hospitalized. Moreover, Langdon is not even in his home state of Massachusetts, but rather the hospital he’s in is in Florence, Italy. After regaining consciousness, Langdon is being briefed on how he’s in the hospital because a bullet grazed his head when a woman dressed in black leather and having spiked hair appears in the hospital Langdon is in and attempts to kill him. After killing one of the doctors, Langdon and hospital doctor, Dr. Sienna Brooks escape with their lives. While in Sienna’s apartment, Langdon finds a biohazard capsule in the lining of his jacket that is fitted with a projector showing Botticelli’s Map of Hell from the “Divine Comedy '' by Italian poet, Dante. Langdon and Brooks soon enter a world of clues and codes as they work to stop the work of a genius scientist, Bertrand Zobrist who wishes to eliminate half the world’s population by introducing a deadly pathogen. Zobrist’s misguided beliefs stem from the fact that he sees the overpopulation of the world as a means to an end as resources are being over taxed and humans are depriving the world of too much. Langdon, using his expertise on symbolism and medieval religious history must decipher clues left by Zobrist as to where the bioweapon is located and help save the human population.
I really enjoyed this book as I did for the previous 3 books in the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown. Brown has a way of capturing the reader through his suspenseful style of writing that always leaves you wondering what’s going to happen next. Brown manages to end almost every chapter with some form of a cliffhanger and he uses a tactic where he switches perspectives and essentially, point of views on the plot-line between chapters which is an interesting way of creating thrill and suspense where he gives the reader a certain amount of information but redacts enough to keep them guessing.
Not only is this book, as well as most other Dan Brown books, a good read, but it’s also a very insightful and well thought out look into a portion of history that is so crucial and fascinating yet very few people know about. The book is educational while being gripping and captivating at the same time. Although the plot-line seems to be similar to those of The Da Vinci Code and other thriller-based Dan Brown novels, there is always some sort of plot-twist or character development that absolutely stuns the reader and makes them wonder what else is possible.
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