Inferno

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER - Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings.

＂One hell of a good read.... As close as a book can come to a summertime cinematic blockbuster.＂ --USA Today

＂A diverting thriller.＂ --Entertainment Weekly

With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.

Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno.

Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this captivating thriller.

作者簡介

丹．布朗（Dan Brown）

　　畢業於安默斯特學院（Amherst College），在他全心投入寫作之時，一直擔任該學院的英文老師。1996年，丹．布朗出於對從事密碼破譯工作的秘密政府機關的興趣，寫作了自己的第 一部小說《數位堡壘》（Digital Fortress）。而這部小說立刻成了國內首屈一指的網路小說。它以美國國家安全局（National Security Agency）背景，探究了公民隱私和國家安全之間的界限。

　　丹．布朗的父親是一名曾獲得總統榮譽獎的數學教授，母 親是一名職業宗教音樂家，因此，他從小就生活在科學和宗教相衝突的荒唐哲學中。丹．布朗的妻子既是一名藝術歷史學家，也是一名油畫家，她不僅和丈夫一起合 作研究，還一直陪伴著他完成頻繁的研究之旅。《達文西密碼》系列正是夫妻倆一起到巴黎，在羅浮宮所完成，後來更翻拍成暢銷電影，由湯姆漢克斯主演取得空前 成功，之後的《天使與魔鬼》也陸續翻拍成電影票房亮眼。

　　Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including the recent record-breaking The Lost Symbol, which had the biggest one-week sale in Random House history for a single title.  His previous title, The Da Vinci Code, has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, making it one of the bestselling novels of all time. In addition to numerous appearances on The Today Show, Mr. Brown was named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine. He has appeared in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People,GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels are published in over 50 languages around the world.