History Literature / DanBrownsInferno

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* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Dr. Sinskey is in her sixties and is described repeatedly as very beautiful with her long, overflowing white hair.

* InformedAttractiveness: We are repeatedly told in the book that Dr. Sinskey, [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave who's over 60]], is very beautiful.

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

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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 why Langdon is being hunted and what the whole thing has to do with Creator/DanteAlighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few days earlier in Florence.

** The Consortium, while still ''specializing'' in [[spoiler: grand-scale deception, is actually not afraid to really eliminate perceived liabilities.]]

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* HiddenPassageway: When the Palazzo Vecchio is surrounded by police, Sienna is impressed when Langdon quickly finds a hidden doorway to an escape passage, only for Langdon to point out that it was in the official tour.

* HiddenPassage: When the Palazzo Vecchio is surrounded by police, Sienna is impressed when Langdon quickly finds a hidden doorway to an escape passage, only for Langdon to point out that it was in the official tour.

* 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 pandemic 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 efforts 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]].

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Happens twice in the movie. Langdon asks Sienna to get him coffee so he can use her laptop to check his email. Langdon later fakes a collapse and Sienna asks Bouchard to get some water, so they can slip away.

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 why Langdon is being hunted and what the whole thing has to do with Dante Alighieri and a prominent biologist who committed suicide a few days earlier in Florence.

** Zobrist's plague, rather than being [[spoiler: a SterilityPlague, is strongly implied to actually be a deadly pathogen. Unlike in the book, however, Langdon and the WHO succesfully prevent it's spreading.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Except for Langdon and Sinskey, pretty much every character from the book is made significantly more villainous in the film, especially [[spoiler: Sienna, who willingly sacrifices herself to execute Zobrists scheme rather than finding it monstrous like in the books]].
** Zobrists plague, rather than being [[spoiler: a SterilityPlague, is strongly implied to actually be a deadly pathogen. Unlike in the book, however, Langdon and the WHO succesfully prevent it's spreading.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Vayentha's]] death becomes this in retrospect, after we learn [[spoiler:that she never actually tried to kill Langdon, that Sienna has been the BigBad all along, and that she killed Vayentha mainly to keep Langdon working for the wrong person]]. It's made even worse by the fact that this murder is never brought up again after TheReveal.
** In the movie, however, [[spoiler:she ''does'' eventually receive the order to kill Langdon]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: Except for Langdon and Sinskey, pretty much every character from the book is made significantly more villainous in the film, especially [[spoiler: Sienna]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: Except for Langdon and Sinskey, pretty much every character from the book is made significantly more villainous, especially [[spoiler: Sienna]].

* FakeAmerican: In the film, [[spoiler:the US consulate man turns out to be a Brit working for the Consortium faking an American accent]].