“There’s a switch. If you throw it, half the people on Earth will die. But if you don’t, in 100 years, the human race will be extinct.”
So begins a typical day for Robert Langdon, the dashing “symbologist” at the center of Dan Brown’s bestselling novels Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol and, most recently, Inferno.
A film adaptation of the latter is coming to theaters this fall, once again starring Tom Hanks as Langdon; a beautiful, much-younger, accented woman as his highly pedigreed sidekick (this time, it’s Felicity Jones); and an impressive array of international celebrities, including Bollywood icon Irrfan Khan.
In their latest adventure, Robert and co. must race against time to solve some kind of twisty puzzle relating to Dante’s Inferno. “Why Dante? Why this map of hell?” asks Langdon. Guess we’ll have to wait until Oct. 28 to find out. (Unless you read the book before then.)
