Inferno - Dan Brown

Revolving around Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy - covering Inferno, Purgatoria and Paradiso; Dan Brown has yet another novel to his credit that is captivating; though there are some similarites at places with some of his earlier writings. That is obvious because it is again our dear Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon going around Florence, Venice and Istanbul, with a threat to his life that propels him into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon's knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers - People from The Consortium and WHO Director Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey and her team.

With only a few lines from Dante's Inferno to guide them, Robert Langdon and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, (with unique intellect including a rather startling capacity for recall), must deciphere a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the Renissance's most celebrated artworks to find the answer to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat....


The great pariah in the medical community Bertrand Zobrist had pointed hypotetical question - If you can throw a switch and randomly kill half the population on earth, would you do it?' Obviously may not. 'But what if you were told that if you didn't throw the switch right now, the human race would be extinct in the next hundred years?' Immediate reaction when asked the question would that be of 'Denial'.

What genetic horror Zobrist dreamed up? How he would thin the human heard? Why did he do it? He was not herd, considered mad, felt all alone...The worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality. And if you have enormus energy and knowledge; you end up doing what you feel is right....Who is Dr. Sienna Brooks?

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in time of moral crises. i.e In dangerous time, there is no sin greater than inaction.