It looks like Robert Langdon is at it again. The Harvard professor of symbology (and, apparently, art history [and medieval literature, too]) awakens to find himself in an Italian hospital, a bullet wound in his scalp, and two days missing from his memory. Rattling around his addled brain are a sense of foreboding and a snippet of memory of a beautiful woman with silver hair. When a black-clad assassin bursts into the hospital room and murders a doctor before his eyes, he escapes into the night with another doctor - a beautiful bald-headed English polyglot genius - only to realize he's in his favorite city in the whole wide world, Florence. Firenze. Whatever.
A hidden pocket in his Harris Tweed jacket yields a strange device that projects an image of Botticelli's La Mappa dell'Inferno, a map of Hell as envisioned by Dante. What follows next should be no surprise to those who devoured Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol. I mean it: no surprise...
The image has been subtly altered to... well, it's Dan Brown and Robert Langdon, so of course it's been subtly altered to provide clues to... who knows? We know: an evil genius has set some arcane plan in motion, a plan that only Langdon and his latest sexy sidekick, Sienna, can prevent. Maybe. Maybe not.
