Caught up in a struggle to prevent a deadly virus from spreading around the globe, he wakes up in a daze in an Italian hospital at the start of the novel and spends the rest of the book trying to regain his bearings. Rowling among novelists for whose publishers the deadliest sin is spoiling the plot.īrown's fictional alter ego, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, is once again on the run. 'The Da Vinci Code' alone has sold more than 80 million copies and ranked Brown with J.K.

And, if all goes well, they will simultaneously appreciate some of the incredible art that Dante has inspired for the last 700 years,' says Brown, who with 'The Da Vinci Code' helped inspire customized tours of the Louvre, Westminster Abbey and other settings in the novel.īrown's new book, published Tuesday, is already high on the best-seller lists of and Barnes &, a position to be expected for an author whose novels have sold 200 million copies worldwide. 'My hope for this book is that people are inspired either to discover or rediscover Dante. Brown is a New Hampshire resident spending the week in New York to promote 'Inferno,' a return to his beloved continent and a chance, he hopes, to interest readers in the classic 14th century journey in verse by Dante that provides the title for his new novel. But, yes, every little work of art that I see or place that I travel to is a potential idea.'īrown, 48, spoke recently at the midtown Manhattan offices of Random House Inc., where he jokingly imagines setting a novel called 'Random Cipher,' with hidden passageways running throughout the building. 'Everything I see is a potential idea and I wish I could turn that off.

'I wish I could travel for pleasure,' says the author of such scenic blockbusters as 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons,' in which secrets and suspense are combined with a guided tour of Italy and other stops in Western Europe. Dan Brown sees the world a little differently than the average person.

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