
Brooks punches Ferris in his damaged ribs, with Brooks claiming he is suffering from massive internal bleeding, causing Langdon to suspect Ferris has been infected with Zobrist's plague. 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. Langdon connects the phrase "Paradise 25" to the Florence Baptistry, where they find the Dante mask along with a riddle from its current owner, a billionaire geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist. Vayentha also arrives, and in a confrontation with Langdon, Brooks pushes her to her death. Langdon and Brooks escape the guards, but the soldiers arrive, and chase them across the attic. Fleeing, Langdon and Sienna listen to a message left by Busoni, referring to "Paradise 25".Vayentha injures Ferris with the squib breaking his ribs. Langdon asks to see the mask again, to retrace his steps, but they find the mask gone, and security footage shows Langdon and Busoni stealing the mask.
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They searched the code in the painting The Battle of Marciano by Vasari, located in the 'Hall of the Five Hundred'.Īt the Palazzo, Langdon meets the director of the museum, Marta Alvarez, who recognizes him, having met him and Ignazio Busoni, the director of Il Duomo, the previous night, when she showed them Dante's death mask. They manage to evade the soldiers and get into the Palazzo Vecchio using the Vasari Corridor. Langdon discovers an anagram, 'Catrovacer'. They flee, and Langdon examines the "Map of Hell" again, noticing several changes to the layers. He goes there with Brooks, but they find that a secretive team of soldiers, and the Florentine Carabinieri searching for them. 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, deducing that the U.S. 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. Meanwhile Ferris plays recorded tape, Langdon saying "Ve. 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". Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust…before the world is irrevocably altered. Īgainst this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In his international blockbusters, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. Inferno follows Brown's three previous Langdon books, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code - which sold more than 81 million copies worldwide and ranks as the bestselling adult hardcover book of all time - and The Lost Symbol.
