They follow the riddle solution to Venice. Brooks explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's growth, and that he was rumored to be working on an engineered disease to do so.įerris, an agent keeping track of Langdon follows them in and helps them escape the soldiers. Langdon connects the phrase 'Paradise 25' to the Florence Baptistry, where they find the Dante mask containing a hidden riddle from its current owner, a billionaire geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist. Vayentha also arrives, and while she attempts to shoot Langdon, Brooks pushes her to her death. Langdon and Brooks escape the guards, but the soldiers arrive, and chase them across the attic. A trail of clues leads them toward the Old City. Langdon opens the container and finds a small medieval bone cylinder fitted with a hi-tech projector (Faraday Pointer) that displays a modified version of Botticelli's Map of Hell, which is based on Dante's Inferno.

Soon, Langdon sees Vayentha pull up to the location he gave the consulate. He learns that they are searching for him, but, prompted by Brooks, claims to be across the street from her apartment, to avoid getting her more involved. Langdon finds a cylinder with a biohazard sign in his jacket and decides to call the U.S. Brooks plays a tape recording on which Langdon repeats what sounds like 'Very sorry'. When Vayentha, an assassin, shows up in the hospital and kills one of the doctors, while attempting to kill Langdon, Brooks helps Langdon escape, and they flee to her apartment. Sienna Brooks, one of the doctors tending to him, reveals that he is suffering from amnesia and hearing a woman's voice repeatedly saying 'seek and find'. Harvard symbolism professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy with a head wound and no memory of the last few days. A film adaptation was released in the United States on October 28, 2016. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release.

The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years after publication of The Da Vinci Code (2003), by Doubleday. Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.

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