What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy?
Inferno (Brown novel) Inferno (Brown novel) Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his "Robert Langdon" series, following "Angels & Demons", "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Lost Symbol". The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years after publication of "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), by Doubleday. It was number one on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of
The Da Vinci Code legend and Mary Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book has, however, been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Roman Catholic Church, and consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The novel nonetheless became a worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies and has been translated into 44 languages. Combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, it is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel "Angels & Demons". In November 2004, Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 2006,