title: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition: Featuring Robert Langdon
author:  Dan Brown 
description: DAN BROWN is the author of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, one of the most widely read novels of all time, as well as the international bestsellers <i>The Lost Symbol</i>, <i>Angels &amp; Demons</i>, <i>Deception Point</i>, and <i>Digital Fortress</i>. He lives in NewEngland with his wife.
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  ## ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  **Dan Brown** is the author of _The Da Vinci Code_ , one of the most widely
  read books of all time, as well as three other bestsellers featuring Harvard
  symbologist Robert Langdon: _Inferno_ , _The Lost Symbol_ and _Angels &
  Demons_. He has also written two internationally acclaimed stand-alone
  thrillers, _Deception Point_ and _Digital Fortress_.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ABOUT THE BOOK
  
  
  Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology,
  arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery
  that ‘will change the face of science forever’. The evening’s host is his
  friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose
  dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial
  figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will
  reveal an astonishing breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human
  existence.
  
  
  But Langdon and several hundred guests are left re