About the book
'Seek and ye shall find.'
With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdonawakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor canhe explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.
A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneckchase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon's knowledge of hidden passageways andancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of theirunknown pursuers.
With only a few lines from Dante's dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them,they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebratedartefacts of the Renaissance - sculptures, paintings, buildings - to find the answers to apuzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat...
Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history's most ominous literaryclassics, Inferno is Dan Brown's most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, abreathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you gountil you close the book
About the author
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels andDemons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. He is a graduate of Amherst Collegeand Phillips Exeter Academy, where he has taught English and Creative Writing. He livesin New England.