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地狱(英文原著)--丹·布朗

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简介:《炼狱》的主人公是回归的哈佛大学符号学教授罗伯特·兰登,小说以意大利为故事背景,以但丁的史诗《神曲2:炼狱篇》为中心,展开的一系列惊心动魄的历险故事。丹·布朗在小说中巧妙地融合了历史、艺术、密码和符号等元素,创造了一部崭新的惊悚悬疑小说。在谈到新书的创作过程时,丹·布朗称自己研读了6个月的相关资料,包括几个版本的《神曲》译本,不同的但丁研究者的注释,关于但丁的生平、哲学的历史文本以及关于佛罗伦萨的背景阅读,之后还前往佛罗伦萨和威尼斯,拜见了一些艺术史学家、图书馆学家和学者。...
  “Got it,” the man replied. “Don’t move. Stay in your room. Someone will be there right away. Room number?”
  Langdon made one up. “Thirty-nine.”
  “Okay. Twenty minutes.” Collins lowered his voice. “And, Mr. Langdon, it sounds like you may be injured and confused, but I need to know … are you still in possession?”
  In possession. Langdon sensed the question, while cryptic, could have only one meaning. His eyes moved to the biotube on the kitchen table. “Yes, sir. I’m still in possession.”
  Collins exhaled audibly. “When we didn’t hear from you, we assumed … well, frankly, we assumed the worst. I’m relieved. Stay where you are. Don’t move. Twenty minutes. Someone will knock on your door.”
  Collins hung up.
  Langdon could feel his shoulders relaxing for the first time since he’d woken up in the hospital. The consulate knows what’s going on, and soon I’ll have answers. Langdon closed his eyes and let out a slow breath, feeling almost human now. His headache had all but passed.
  “Well, that was all very MI6,” Sienna said in a half-joking tone. “Are you a spy?”
  At the moment Langdon had no idea what he was. The notion that he could lose two days of memory and find himself in an unrecognizable situation felt incomprehensible, and yet here he was … twenty minutes away from a rendezvous with a U.S. Consulate official in a run-down hotel.
  What’s happening here?
  He glanced over at Sienna, realizing they were about to part ways and yet feeling as if they had unfinished business. He pictured the bearded doctor at the hospital, dying on the floor before her eyes. “Sienna,” he whispered, “your friend … Dr. Marconi … I feel terrible.”
  She nodded blankly.
  “And I’m sorry to have dragged you into this. I know your situation at the hospital is unusual, and if there’s an investigation …” He trailed off.
  “It’s okay,” she said. “I’m no stranger to moving around.”
  Langdon sensed in Sienna’s distant eyes that everything had changed for her this morning. Langdon’s own life was in chaos at the moment, and yet he felt his heart going out to this woman.
  She saved my life … and I’ve ruined hers.
  They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find separate paths.
  “Sienna,” Langdon finally said, “when I sort this out with the consulate, if there’s anything I can do to help you … please.”
  “Thanks,” she whispered, and turned her eyes sadly toward the window.
  As the minutes ticked past, Sienna Brooks gazed absently out the kitchen window and wondered where the day would lead her. Wherever it was, she had no doubt that by day’s end, her world would look a lot different.
  She knew it was probably just the adrenaline, but she found herself strangely attracted to the American professor. In addition to his being handsome, he seemed to possess a sincerely good heart. In some distant, alternate life, Robert Langdon might even be someone she could be with.
  He would never want me, she thought. I’m damaged.
  As she choked back the emotion, something outside the window caught her eye. She bolted upright, pressing her face to the glass and staring down into the street. “Robert, look!”
  Langdon peered down into the street at the sleek black BMW motorcycle that had just rumbled to a stop in front of Pensione la Fiorentina. The driver was lean and strong, wearing a black leather suit and helmet. As the driver gracefully swung off the bike and removed a polished black helmet, Sienna could hear Langdon stop breathing.
  The woman’s spiked hair was unmistakable.
  She produced a familiar handgun, checked the silencer, and slid it back inside her jacket pocket. Then, moving with lethal grace, she slipped inside the hotel.
  “Robert,” Sienna whispered, her voice taut with fear. “The U.S. government just sent someone to kill you.”
  CHAPTER 13
  ROBERT LANGDON FELT a swell of panic as he stood at the apartment window, eyes riveted on the hotel across the street. The spike-haired woman had just entered, but Langdon could not fathom how she had gotten the address.
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