Finished: Inferno (Brown) Another page-turning Dan Brown book, and this one set mostly in Florence, my favorite city in Italy! :-) Of course, Brown's Inferno is all about a bunch of clues that a madman uses from Dante's Inferno, so that was kind of fun to read as well. And, again, Robert Langdon, the perpetual hero of the Dan Brown novels, is the hero of the book, helping the World Health Organization track down what they presume to be a world population-crushing virus before it is released on the innocent public. This time, Robert is helped and hindered by the mysterious, child-prodigy turned complicated grown doctor, Sienna Brooks. At times she appeared to be on Langdon's side, and at times a foe, but in the end, she did the right thing. I really liked her character and hope she'll turn up in another Robert Langdon adventure! So, though they don't manage to save the day in the end, the virus isn't really a killing virus, like they thought, but a virus to render 1/3 of the world's population infertile, thus slowing down the eventual demise of civilization due to overpopulation. It was an interesting read! My favorite parts, though, were all the descriptions that I could see so easily in my mind's eye of the different sites in Florence! :-)