“With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm.a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways. In the new novel, Robert Langdon will travel to Italy to investigate Dante’s classic literary work, “The Inferno.” In a release from Doubleday, Dan Brown explains, “Although I studied Dante’s Inferno as a student, it wasn’t until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante’s work on the modern world,” said Brown. It has been translated into 51 languages and is considered the bestselling adult hardcover of all time with 81 million copies in print worldwide. In case you’ve forgotten “The Da Vinci Code” phenomenon, it spent more than a year - 54 weeks - topping the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list after it was released in 2003. They have all been international blockbusters. Three of his Robert Langdon novels have been adapted for the screen by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks. Dan Brown’s new thriller “Inferno,” starrring his tweedy hero Robert Langdon from “The Da Vinci Code,” will be published May 14 in hardcover and as an e-book by Doubleday, the publisher announced Tuesday. Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol and most recently, Inferno.