Inferno
Robert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with a head wound, no memory of the past two days, and a stranger trying to kill him. A quick-thinking young doctor, Sienna Brooks, spirits him away, and the two discover a small biohazard cylinder hidden among his belongings—one that projects a modified version of Botticelli's Map of Hell, itself inspired by Dante Alighieri's Inferno.
As fragments of memory return, Langdon pieces together that a brilliant, doom-haunted geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist, obsessed with human overpopulation, has created something he intended to unleash on the world. Following Dante's imagery through Florence, Venice, and Istanbul—hunted by a shadowy security contractor and a World Health Organization team whose motives are unclear—Langdon must decode the trail before a threat with the power to reshape humanity is triggered.
The fourth Robert Langdon novel fuses Renaissance art and Dante scholarship with a modern bioethical thriller, driving toward a moral question with no easy answer.
Harvard professor of symbology who wakes in Florence with no memory of the previous two days.
Transhumanist geneticist obsessed with human overpopulation, whose creation drives the plot.
Director-General of the World Health Organization, hunting Zobrist's creation.
Pregnant Palazzo Vecchio administrator who admits Langdon to Dante's death mask.
Director of Florence's Il Duomo, who helps Langdon before dying of a heart attack.