Review 1: Inferno by Dan Brown

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                 Inferno: By Dan Brown

The fourth book in the Robert Langdon series of book by Dan Brown, is Inferno.

A book featuring the return of our favorite professor, Robert Langdon, Dept. of Symbology, Harvard University.

This book too, like all the other three in the series contains blood curdling and hair-raising revelations. Inferno takes us to an epic race against time, as we travel through the city of Florence, following the pages of the epic poem: The Divine Comedy, by Dante Algheiri.

We find Robert Langdon in a Florentine hospital, suffering from retro-grade amnesia. He has no memories of the past two days. He has a stitched wound at the back of his head, which is most likely, a gun-shot injury, his limited edition Mickey Mouse is gone and his Harris Tweed, is blood-stained.

With his greatest asset, his memory to have betrayed him, he is alone with an unknown doctor, Ms. Sienna Brooks. He has to follow Sandro Botticelli's, La Mappa de Hell (The Map of Hell), which has been digitally altered, either by a ludicrous Dante fanatic or a genius maniac.

Dan Brown reveals how Florence was the city closest to the heart of Dante, perhaps with the exception of his first and only love, as we trail along with Prof. Langdon and Dr. Brooks around Florence, and the world, in search of a 'thing' resting under the deep-red waters of lagoon that reflects no stars.

This is the one where the world is left changed, for better or for worse, for ever. Call it insanity or a necessity, the book contains some dug-up notifications which leaves you mesmerized and, no other way of putting it, scared.

As for the second-opinion, the book's sales are already reaching the stars.

                                                      Ritwik P. Srivastava


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