Dan Brown · 2013 · thriller

Dan Brown's 2013 Robert Langdon thriller. Waking in a Florence hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last days, the symbologist Langdon is hunted through the city's art and passageways as he unravels a trail hidden in Dante's Inferno. The chase carries him from Florence to Venice and on to Istanbul, racing a brilliant zealot's plan to cull humanity with an engineered plague.

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   Florence

   Langdon comes to in a Florence hospital, wounded and amnesiac, and flees through the city - the Boboli Gardens, the Vasari Corridor, the Palazzo Vecchio - decoding a warning wound into a copy of Botticelli's map of Dante's Hell.

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   Venice

   The trail of clues in Dante's verses draws Langdon on to Venice and the gilded Basilica of St. Mark's, where he realizes the plague he is chasing was never meant to be released in Italy at all.

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   Istanbul

   The hunt ends beneath Istanbul, in the drowned columns of the Basilica Cistern below Hagia Sophia, where the zealot Zobrist has hidden his engineered contagion, and Langdon's race against a pandemic reaches its close.