History Literature / DanBrownsInferno

A film of the book, with Creator/TomHanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon, will be released on October 28, 2016.

* AuthorFilibuster: Besides the central GreenAesop, there are Robert Langdon rants about [[VanityPublishing e-publishing]], although he later admits there are gems in them.[[note]]Then he makes it ''really'' clear ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is not a gem [[/note]]

** 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--oh, wait, that's not true, either...]]

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 [[HotScientist Sienna Brooks]], a visiting ER doctor from Britain. Together, they have to uncover the truth about who and why hunts Langdon and what the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few days earlier in Florence.

''Inferno'' (2013) is Creator/DanBrown's sixth published novel and the fourth to star Robert Langdon, the protagonist of ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', and ''Literature/TheLostSymbol''. As the title suggests, the plot is very heavy on ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' references.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: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. And considering that the alternative to the villain's success was humanity's extinction in about a hundred years, it was not that much of a downer ending, after all. This is averted in in the movie where they do succeed in stopping the plague from unleashing.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole plot of the book involves Langdon trying to follow the clues that the BigBad The Shade intentionally left behind in order to try to prevent ThePlague from being released to the atmosphere, and find the Ground Zero where the pandemia would begin. On the other hand, The WHO is trying to do this very same thing, the Consortium is trying to stop these from finding it, because they work for the "now deceased" BigBad without even knowing a plague was involved, [[spoiler: and Sienna is using everyone to find ThePlague for her own personal plans.]] On a HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:The consortium decides to team-up with the WHO when they discover that they were actually helping to produce a global epidemic and a possible genocide, thus making all of their previous effords of hiding the truth from governmental agencies, useless]]. When they finally find the location a day before the day the plague was supposed to be released, [[spoiler:the BigBad had already released the plague a week before, thus manipulating everyone into a useless journey of chasing their own tails, while the real plague was on its way to infect everyone on Earth.]] Most readers actually believed The Shade would [[spoiler:actually leave a chance for the heroes of stopping his plans]].

A film of the book is in production, with Creator/TomHanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon. It was released on October 28, 2016.

A film of the book is in production, with Creator/TomHanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon. It is due to be released in October 2016.

** The menacing, mannish hitwoman Vayentha who nearly offs Langdon twice? [[spoiler:Actually, the Consortium's specialist on DeathFakedForYou called in to make Langdon believe he is targeted and solve the riddles for the Consortium.]]

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Dr. Sinskey is in her sixties, yet she's described [[InformedAttractiveness repeatedly]] as very beautiful with her long, overflowing white hair.

* HotScientist: Dr. Sienna Brooks. Langdon finds Dr. Sinskey (who's twice as old as Sienna) very attractive (see InformedAttractiveness below), too.
* InformedAttractiveness: We are repeatedly told in the book that [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave despite being over 60]], Dr. Sinskey is very beautiful.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: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. And considering that the alternative to the villain's success was humanity's extinction in about a hundred years, it was not that much of a downer ending, after all.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted in in the movie where they do succeed in stopping the plague from unleashing.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole plot of the book involves Langdon trying to follow the clues that the BigBad The Shade intentionally left behind in order to try to prevent ThePlague from being released to the atmosphere, and find the Ground Zero where the pandemia would begin. On the other hand, The WHO is trying to do this very same thing, the Consortium is trying to stop these from finding it, because they work for the "now deceased" BigBad without even knowing a plague was involved, [[spoiler: and Sienna is using everyone to find ThePlague for her own personal plans.]] On a HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:The consortium decides to team-up with the WHO when they discover that they were actually helping to produce a global epidemic and a possible genocide, thus making all of their previous effords of hiding the truth from governmental agencies, useless]]. When they finally find the location a day before the day the plague was supposed to be released, [[spoiler:the BigBad had already released the plague a week before, thus manipulating everyone into an useless journey of chasing their own tails, while the real plague was on its way to infect everyone on Earth.]] Most readers actually believed The Shade would [[spoiler:actually leave a chance for the heroes of stopping his plans]].

A film of the book is in production, with Creator/TomHanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon. It is due to be released in December 2015.

* AuthorFilibuster: Besides the central GreenAesop, there are Robert Langdon rants about [[VanityPublishing e-publishing]], although he later admits there are gems in them.[[note]]Then he makes it ''really'' clear FiftyShadesOfGray is not a gem [[/note]]

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Dr. Sinskey is in her sixties. and we are told, [[InformedAttractiveness repeatedly]], that she looks very beautiful with her long, overflowing white hair.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Dr. Sinskey is in her sixties and we are told, [[InformedAttractiveness repeatedly]], that she looks very beautiful with her a long, overflowing white hair.

* HotScientist: Dr. Sienna Brooks. Langdon finds Dr. Sinskey (who's twice as old as Sienna) very attractive, too.

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole plot of the book involves Langdom trying to follow the clues that the BigBad The Shade intentionally left behind in order to try to prevent ThePlague from being released to the atmosphere, and find the Ground Zero where the pandemia would begin. On the other hand, The WHO is trying to do this very same thing, the Consortium is trying to stop these from finding it, because they work for the "now deceased" BigBad without even knowing a plague was involved, [[spoiler: and Sienna is using everyone to find ThePlague for her own personal plans.]] On a HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:The consortium decides to team-up with the WHO when they discover that they were actually helping to produce a global epidemic and a possible genocide, thus making all of their previous effords of hiding the truth from governmental agencies, useless]]. When they finally find the location a day before the day the plague was supposed to be released, [[spoiler:the BigBad had already released the plague a week before, thus manipulating everyone into an useless journey of chasing their own tails, while the real plague was on its way to infect everyone on Earth.]] Most readers actually believed The Shade would [[spoiler:actually leave a chance for the heroes of stopping his plans]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Shade. Even his lover and closest confidante agrees that his methods are monstrous.
* 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--albeit most of his posthumous characterization comes from his lover and apprentice, whose views are naturally skewed in his favor.
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler: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 infects every human being on Earth.]]

* [[spoiler:ShaggyDogStory]]: The whole plot of the book involves Langdom trying to follow the clues that the BigBad The Shade intentionally left behind in order to try to prevent ThePlague from being released to the atmosphere, and find the Ground Zero where the pandemia would begin. On the other hand, The WHO is trying to do this very same thing, the Consortium is trying to stop these from finding it, because they work for the "now deceased" BigBad without even knowing a plague was involved.. [[spoiler: And Sienna is using everyone to find ThePlague for her own personal plans...]] On a HeelFaceTurn,[[spoiler:The consortium decides to team-up with the WHO when they discover that they were actually helping to produce a global epidemic and a possible genocide, thus making all of their previous effords of hiding the truth from governmental agencies, useless...]] Then again, [[spoiler:when they finally find the location a day before the day the plague was supposed to be released, the BigBad had already released the plague a week before, thus manipulating everyone into an useless journey of chasing their own tails, while the real plague was on its way to infect everyone on Earth.]] Bonus points for all the readers who actually believed The Shade would [[spoiler:actually leave a chance for the heroes of stopping his plans.]]

* AuthorFilibuster: Besides the central GreenAesop, there are Robert Langdon rants about [[VanityPublishing e-publishing]], although he later admits there are gems in them. [[note]] Then he makes it ''really'' clear FiftyShadesOfGray is not a gem [[/note]]
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]

* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend: Sienna is actually one of the people behind the whole Inferno scheme.]]

* [[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. And considering that the alternative to the villain's success was humanity's extinction in about a hundred years, it was not that much of a downer ending, after all.]]

* [[spoiler:SterilityPlague: What the eponymous Inferno actually is: a virus that randomly renders a third of the world's human population infertile.]]

* [[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 infects every human being on Earth.]]

* [[spoiler: DepravedHomosexual: Subverted. They make Zobrist look like one briefly. See GenderMisdirection below.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: This is the fate of [[spoiler: Vayentha]], who falls through a fresco before hitting the floor.

* GreenAesop: Done [[{{Anvilicious}} very blantly]]. "Overpopulation leads to human extinction" is repeated many times.

[[spoiler: DepravedHomosexual: Subverted. They make Zobrist look like one briefly. See GenderMisdirection below.]]