American writer Dan Brown is the author of several best-selling books. He was always interested in secret societies, philosophy and cryptography. The first Digital Fortress novel was published in 1998. The detective "Angels and Demons" following him brought world fame to the author. The book “The Da Vinci Code” continued the adventures of Dr. Langdon. Roman took the first line in the list of best sellers and settled there for a long time. Soon the book became the No. 1 hit in the country. The scientist-hero Dan Brown, who fell in love with readers, falls into the maelstrom of events in 2013 on the pages of the new novel “Inferno”.
Who are you, Dr. Langdon?
Although a professor of symbolology at Harvard University, Robert Langdon, was not handsome, his penetrating blue eyes and charming voice made more than one representative of the beautiful half of humanity sigh. The forty-five-year-old professor was never married and was devoted only to science. Even on weekends he could be seen surrounded by students.
With his famous watch with Mickey Mouse, Langdon did not part with nine years. He received an excellent education. His mentor was Peter Solomon. It was his lectures that influenced Robert's decision to devote his life to symbology. Langdon lived in Massachusetts, and the shelves of his Victorian house were lined with masks, figurines of deities, crosses from around the world.
Robert is the author of many books on religious symbolism, which are very popular. A world-famous scientist often appears on the covers of a magazine. He is often invited to lecture and is asked by an indispensable specialist for advice. Langdon's science trips often end in adventure.
Robert is also a great connoisseur of art. He often travels to Italy, and Florence is the professor's favorite city. It was there that the story happened to the doctor, which Dan Brown told on the pages of the Inferno novel. A summary of the work in this article.
Hospital ward
A doctor woke up in a hospital. Memories surfaced slowly, like bubbles at the bottom of a bottomless well. A strange vision in which a mysterious woman stood by a river full of blood made the professor scream. Robert came to his senses. He looked around: in an empty room it smelled of alcohol, and the light was on. The heart was beating fast, and the cardiomonitor, which was nearby, squealed more often. Langdon tried to move, and an unbearable pain pierced the back of his head.
A bearded man in a white coat entered the door. Langdon asked what happened to him. The bearded man jumped out into the corridor and called someone. A minute later he came in, accompanied by a woman who greeted and said that her name was Dr. Brooks. The doctor explained that he arrived at them without documents yesterday. After examining the patient, she said that he is now in Florence, and memory loss is associated with retrograde amnesia, which is caused by traumatic brain injury. And this happened because the professors were shot.
In the novel “Inferno,” the professor tried to recall what happened to him in the last few days. Brooks and the bearded man Marconi came in, explained that Robert was lucky because the bullet only scratched his head.
The administrator on duty said that a visitor had come to Langdon, which Brooks was very surprised at, as they had not made entries in the registration book. The woman, covered in black leather, headed straight for Robert's room. Dr. Marconi tried to block her path, a visitor grabbed a gun and shot him in the chest.
Payed assassin
Dr. Brooks quickly jumped up and closed the iron door, bullets hailing on the skin. Brooks unceremoniously pushed the professor into the restroom and brought his jacket. Without losing her composure, the doctor brought him to the next room. Soon they were on the street. Brooks stopped the taxi, the driver turned around and looked at a strange couple. A figure covered in black leather jumped out of the alley. A taxi driver asked where to go. But when the rear window shattered from a shot to smithereens, he instantly pressed the gas pedal.
The next chapter of the novel “Inferno” takes place in a consortium whose boss has contacted the wrong people, and now they are threatened with destruction. His company specializes in the formation of false public opinion and falsification, and also hides its clients from justice. One of them, recently dropped from the Florentine tower, gave him clear directions. And he intends to fulfill them. One of them was to send a video on TV channels telling about Inferno. The next thing that needed to be done was to pick up the bone cylinder from the cell in the bank. But, alas, he is abducted. I had to send an agent to search for him.
Painting Botticelli
Dr. Brooks brought Langdon to her home. He found in her apartment newspaper clippings about the child prodigy. From all indications, this girl is Dr. Siena Brooks. She shows Robert a capsule for transporting dangerous substances, which was sewn into the lining of his jacket. Her castle opens with a fingerprint of Langdon. Robert calls the American Consulate.
In the continuation of the novel “Inferno,” Siena saw a woman agent through the window. This happened shortly after their call. The conclusion is obvious: the American government wants to kill a professor. But for what? Perhaps the answer is hiding in the container, and Robert opens it. Inside was a carved cylinder - a mini-projector projecting Botticelli's "Map of Hell". Having looked closely, Langdon notices that an inscription appeared in the picture.
Old city
An armored car drove up to Brooks's house, from which people in uniform got out. This is a help and response service looking for Robert. Siena saved the professor again. The woman who shot Langdon turned out to be an agent of the consortium. She heard rumors that the boss had decided to remove her from work. To regain trust, she wants to complete her mission. The agent hid on the roof of a neighboring building and does not take her eyes off the professor’s shelter.
The next chapter of the novel "Inferno" talks about how Langdon goes to the Old Town, where Dante was born and raised. He is sure that the riddle in the picture is connected with the poet. The agent follows them relentlessly. Siena and Robert saw that the gates of the Old Town were full of police. Obviously this is looking for them. They hide in the huge gardens of the Medici. They are looking for a radio-controlled helicopter with a camera. The professor guesses what is encrypted in the picture. The hint indicates a mural that is exhibited in the Old Town Museum.
Geneticist
The action of the novel "Inferno" takes the reader to the office of the head of the World Health Organization. Brooks recalled a recent meeting with a genius geneticist who predicted that overpopulation of the planet would lead to human death. He is sure: to prevent this from happening, humanity must be thinned out with the help of the plague. Elizabeth Sinsky understands that the planet’s resources will be depleted, but she categorically disagrees with the methods of genetics.
Police surrounded Siena and Robert. Thanks to the erudition of Langdon, who knows everything about the peculiarities of Italian architecture, they are selected from the trap. But the agent relentlessly follows them on the heels. They get to the mural. The museum ranger tells the professor that he was here yesterday and was considering the death mask of Dante. He was not alone, but with the art critic Busoni. Robert understands the importance of recording on the projection of a picture.
Zobrist Genetics Property
From the Inferno novel, its next chapter, the reader learns that the mask Robert is looking for has been stolen. The surveillance camera shows that the abductors are Langdon and Busoni. The caretaker says that this mask is the property of the billionaire Zobrist. Brooks, as it turned out, is aware of his theory.
The caretaker is forced to contact the police. But Robert does not remember anything and cannot say where the mask is. Then they call Busoni. The art critic died yesterday of a heart attack, but managed to leave a message before his death, in which Langdon saw a hint of the last chapter of the Divine Comedy.
The museum is surrounded by police officers and people of Bruder. But the professor and Siena again manage to hide. On the way, Brooks talks about the theory of Zobrist, who does not use his knowledge to heal people, but to destroy them. After meeting with WHO Director Sinsky, the geneticist became an outcast and dropped from the Florentine tower.
Mask
In the next chapter of Brown's novel “Inferno,” Langdon goes to the city baptismal room, where Dante was baptized. The professors were brought there by Busoni’s clue. Someone is watching Robert and Siena. The main gate of the baptismal room was open. But to get there, they had to distract the guard.
In the building they found a mask, the inside of which was primed. After cleaning the primer, Robert found poems that mention the underground palace, the treacherous doge and the museum of wisdom.
The professors and Siena are overtaken by the man who followed them. He is introduced by WHO staffer Jonathan Ferris and claims that Langdon works for them. Siena is confident that he can be trusted, but Robert does not remember anything. The verse points to Venice. They all go there together, doing everything possible to confuse the NDP squad that is following them.
Zobrist's Video
In a train compartment, Jonathan tells satellites that Sinsky asked the professor to help solve the mystery. Elizabeth also showed him the bone cylinder that she had taken from Zobrist’s bank cell. Professor Langdon understands that the fate of humanity depends on his ingenuity, since he will have to find the source of the plague.
The next chapter of the book “Inferno”, a novel by D. Brown, takes the reader to the office of the chief of the consortium, who is watching the video left to him by Zobrist. He is frightened by what he saw on the screen, and the boss contacts the FS-2080 agent. It was this agent who recommended genetics to contact the consortium.
Bitter truth
Langdon decided to meet with Chef and Sinsky. They showed him a video of a scientist showing a bag of plastic dipped in water. When the plastic bag bursts, a virus enters it. In this chapter of Inferno, a Dan Brown novel, a terrible secret is revealed to Robert Langdon. He becomes aware that Siena was a geneticist's lover and an agent of the consortium.
The girl grew up as a child prodigy. She wanted to save the world, and how to do this, she found out only when she met with a geneticist. When the geneticist was hiding from WHO, he forgot about Siena. She turned to the consortium for help, but too late. Beloved committed suicide before her eyes.
Langdon's injury is a myth. Employees of the consortium provoked memory loss with drugs. Everything was done so that the professor trusted Siena and returned the projector. The girl used his knowledge to find the source of the plague. Robert really likes the girl, he hardly comes to himself from what he heard.
Underground lake
Continuing to read the novel “Inferno,” the reader and his professor will travel to Istanbul. On the plane, Robert meets Ferris, who turned out to be an employee of the consortium. In Istanbul, Robert finds an underground hall with an ancient city reservoir. The reckless Siena follows Robert.
But the professor did not have time: the bag was dissolved, and the infection occurred. Seeing Siena, Robert runs after her. She has nowhere to go, and the girl tells the professor about the letter of the geneticist, which she received before his disappearance. A geneticist wrote to her about a virus that causes infertility by invading a person’s genetic code. But the Zobrist loved humanity, so he came up with an alternative to the plague, so as not to kill millions of people.
There will be no dying people or rotting corpses. Just fewer children will be born. The girl was afraid that people would know the principle by which the virus was created, and they would invent bacteriological weapons. She decided to destroy the virus, but was late. The date reported by Zobrist was not the time when the virus breaks free, but in the afternoon when all of humanity is infected.
All ahead
The consortium chief understands that the WHO director will not let him go unpunished and, having organized another hoax, is trying to escape. Sinski does everything possible to prevent panic, as fear spreads faster than the virus. Professor brings Siena to the Director of WHO. Siena tells her about a virus that can make a third of the world's population barren.
The letter of the geneticist has been destroyed, but Siena has a phenomenal memory and the professor advises Sinsky to talk to the girl. The head of WHO agrees to collaborate with Siena. They are leaving for a medical forum in Geneva. The professor escorts them. Siena kissed Robert goodbye, and he hopes that they still have everything ahead.
Dan Brown's novel "Inferno"
Reader reviews confirm that it’s quite interesting to follow Professor Langdon’s adventures. Traveling around the world, the hero explores and solves puzzles. Each of his journeys is a chain of intellectual puzzles in the field of literature, history, art or religion. The writer skillfully gives the reader food for thought, promoting the hero step by step to the solution. Following him, you will certainly learn something new and join the secret.
Thanks to the author, together with his hero you are making a virtual tour of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul. Affects the writer and significant for a kind of human problem. He regularly addresses pressing but uncomfortable topics. Brown can cling to his stories. He dilutes them with historical facts, so that reading becomes an exciting activity.
The film based on the novel "Inferno" is filled with beautiful views of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The story differences with the book begin only at the end of the film. But this is probably due to the fact that the creators sought to make the finale more dynamic and intense. Overall the film is intriguing. The idea, of course, is not new, but it is implemented efficiently. The director approached the project creatively and during the film he finds something to surprise the viewer. The cast is great. This film can be classified as one that you want to watch again.