History Literature / DanBrownsInferno

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Zobrist succeeds in his plan to make one third of the world's population infertile. Strangely enough, the main characters seem to take the stance that this is not such a bad thing. Granted, they were mentally preparing for a second Black Plague killing billions all around the world, so at least their relief at that moment is understandable.]]
** [[spoiler: the alternative to the villain's plan succeeding was humanity's extinction in about a hundred years. So it actually ''wasn't'' a downer ending.]]
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:It was much too late to do anything before the narrative proper even begins; by the time Langdon wakes up at the start, the pathogen had been released for the better part of a week. Which means that the entire novel is actually nothing more than a comedy of errors, with the real story having finished already.]]

* [[spoiler:YouAreTooLate: Zobrist's SterilityPlague was quietly unleashed in Istanbul shortly before or after his suicide in Florence. The much touted date one day after Langdon's awakening is not the day the virus is ''released'', it's the day when it becomes impossible to stop.]]

* AuthorFilibuster: Besides the central GreenAesop, there are Robert Langdon rants about [[VanityPublishing e-publishing]], although he later admits there are gems in them.

* AuthorFilibuster: Beside the central GreenAesop, there are:
** Robert Langdon rants about [[VanityPublishing e-publishing]] twice, although he later admit there are gems in them.
** A little jab toward Literature/{{Twilight}}'s/ Snowdragon Icequeen's Fifty Shades of Gray's success
** Uncertainty in NASA's ability. Looks like Dan Brown has finally accept reality.

* GreenAesop: Done [[{{Avilicious}} very blantly]].

* GreenAesop: Done {{Aviliciously}}.

* GreenAesop: Done Aviliciously.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Zobrist succeeds in his plan to make one third of the world's population infertile. Strangely enough, the book itself seems to take the stance that this is not such a bad thing.]]
** [[spoiler:Compared to what they thought would happen, a second Black Plague killing billions all around the world, it really is not ''that'' much of a bad thing.]]

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Apart from [[spoiler:the Consortium, a PunchClockVillain group by itself]], the story really does not have a real bad guy as such. Even [[spoiler:the Shade]] is portrayed as a merely a WellIntentionedExtremist.

Langdon wakes up in a Florentine hospital with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and a [[AmnesiacHero complete blackout about the last couple of days]], including such important details as who shot him and how he ended up in Italy without any documents in the first place. Before long, [[TheSyndicate the sinister Consortium]]'s hitwoman catches up with the wounded professor, who barely escapes with some help from the visiting ER doctor from Britain, [[HotScientist Dr. Sienna Brooks]]. Together, they have to uncover the truth about who and why hunts Langdon and what does the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few days earlier in Florence.

As the book opens, Langdon wakes up in a Florentine hospital with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and a [[AmnesiacHero complete blackout about the last couple of days]], including such important details as who shot him and how he ended up in Italy without any documents in the first place. Before long, [[TheSyndicate the sinister Consortium]]'s hitwoman catches up with the wounded professor, who barely escapes with some help from the visiting ER doctor from Britain, [[HotScientist Dr. Sienna Brooks]]. Together, they have to uncover the truth about who and why hunts Langdon and what does the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few days earlier in Florence.

* NoNameGiven: The provost is just... provost for the entire novel.

** [[spoiler:The poor, unfortunate Dr. Brooks whom Langdon drags into this mess? Actually, a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent who dupes Langdon, the Consortium, and eventually the WHO to keep her lover and mentor Zobrist's research out of their hands--and destroy it herself. Basically, she is the BigBad of the story.]]
** The plague-infected spy who stalks Langdon and Sienna in Florence? [[spoiler:Actually, he is with the WHO and merely has a bad case of contact allergy that looks like plague symptoms to the uninitiated.]]

* StartsWithASuicide: The prologue concerns the last moments of the Shade's life (actually, [[spoiler:Bertrand Zobrist]]).

* TheSyndicate: The provost's Consortium. [[spoiler:It's not so bad, however, since is basically concerns ''deception'' on a grand scale, rather than outright assassinations and other obviously criminal activities.]]
* TitleDrop: The references to Dante's ''Inferno'' are dropped constantly throughout the novel, both literally and metaphorically, but it actually refers to ThePlague about to be unleashed on humanity

* ThePlague: The eponymous Inferno, with the parallel constantly drawn between it and the Black Death. [[spoiler:Or so it appears.]]

As the book opens, Langdon wakes up in a Florentine hospital with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and a [[AmnesiacHero complete blackout about the last couple of days]], including such important details as who shot him and how he ended up in Italy without any documents in the first place. Before long, [[TheSyndicate the sinister Consortium]]'s hitwoman catches up with the wounded professor, who barely escapes with some help from the visiting ER doctor from Britain, [[HotScientist Dr. Sienna Brooks]]. Together, they have to uncover the truth about who and why hunts Langdon and what does the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few day earlier in Florence.

* HotScientist: Dr. Sienna Brooks.

The plot starts with Langdon waking up in a Florentine hospital with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and a [[AmnesiacHero complete blackout about the last couple of days]], including such important details like how he ended up in Italy without any documents and who shot him in the first place. Before long, [[TheSyndicate the sinister Consortium]] catches up with the wounded professor, who barely escapes their hitwoman with some help from his treating ER doctor, a British [[HotScientist Dr. Sienna Brooks]]. Together, they have to uncover the truth about who and why hunts Langdon and what does the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few day earlier in Florence.

* LinkedListClueMethodology: For once in a Dan Brown novel, this is fully justified: [[spoiler:Zobrist did not intend

* [[spoiler:YouAreTooLate: Zobrist's SterilityPlague was quietly unleashed in Istanbul shortly before or after his suicide in Florence. The much touted date one day after Langdon's awakening is not the .]]