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Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon book, Inferno, throws the clever professor into another complex mystery with global consequences. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release. A film adaptation was released in the United States on October 28, 2016. Langdon faces a scientist bent on destruction: a scientist who finds inspiration in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. Langdon awakes in a Venice hospital with no memory of how he got there. He has little time to collect his thoughts or make sense of the visions that tell him to "seek and find" before an assassin arrives. Langdon must set off to put the pieces together. This comprehensive review gives you a complete overview of the plot, key characters, and the author's writing style, both good and bad. Inferno navigates topics such as human overpopulation and social responsibility while Langdon tries to make sense of his visions and come to terms with the feeling that he is the only person who can save the world. In this review, you'll also find critical opinions of the novel as well as an evaluation of the novel's high and low points. Fans of Dan Brown won't be disappointed by this offering, as it has all the trappings of his previous works. Conversely, while the action will keep readers turning pages, some may find his prose weak, as his storytelling relies heavily on his common tropes. Nevertheless, Brown's fourth Robert Langdon novel has plenty to offer. Based on the much recurring theme of Dan Brown’s ‘Robert Langdon’ novels, this novel is also based on his recipe of mixing cutting edge scientific research and his love for symbology and art history. But unlike other novels, here Robert Langdon is not seen discovering secrets or ancient passageways; actually, he doesn’t exactly know what or who is he looking for, courtesy his retrograde amnesia resulting from the gunshot in his head. The story is beset with twists and turns. One of the hallmarks of Dan’s narration is that it is pretty much a ‘comedy’ from Dante’s era, meant for the masses. It is accompanied by accurate and vivid details of the surrounding. He seems like a curator in his account of the art and its relevance. While it definitely makes one feel like a part of the plot, it sometimes gets too belabored where one would think, let us get going with the plot already. Nevertheless, his details are neither too long, nor too short and almost appropriate to the context. Throughout the story, Dan gives the readers ample opportunity to guess and judge, only to be proven wrong in the next scene. A stranger in a strange land with no idea what or why he’s there, Robert has only two people he can rely on, himself and Sienna, who rescued him from the clutches of death. While much of the historical plot of Inferno focuses on the titular work by Dante, the scientific side of the story is incredibly relevant. Previous Brown books like Angels & Demons or The Lost Symbol certainly had some interesting scientific intertwining, but Inferno examines one of the most pressing issues within the scientific community right now. This issue, much like global climate change, has no easy answer, and Brown’s solution through the book’s antagonist is certainly a terrifying answer, even if it is probably the most humane way to go about implementing it. No doubt, it did whet my appetite for thrill, but I don’t know, it ended too soon, or maybe it just made me hungry enough to look forward to the next book.