He shares, “I’d read Dante as a kid, both in high school and college, but I had to re-read it many times to try to understand how to make a 13th Century epic poem palatable as a thriller.” What resulted is a masterpiece where Brown translates the Italian poet’s epic into a contemporary psychological thriller. For this Hell on Earth, Brown borrows inspiration from Dante’s idea of poetic justice, unleashing a deadly disease that will kill billions. This is what Brown imagined what a modern Hell would be: An overpopulated world pushing Earth beyond its means. They point to something far greater than Langdon’s physical problems, and hint at a devastating fate for mankind. As the duo races against the clock, Langdon is perturbed by hallucinations and strange clues relating to Dante’s epic poem, “Inferno”, the Latin word for “Hell”.
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