These women aren’t love interests, exactly - Langdon only sleeps with one of them, in Angels & Demons, and even then only in the book - but they’re still mostly around to satisfy the common masculine fantasy of a beautiful woman who’s happy to follow you around Europe without complaining, and listen attentively to your lectures on the Western canon. In a Dan Brown novel, the twists are just part of the formula: Da Vinci was actually … part of a centuries-old conspiracy! The Vatican is … threatened by an antimatter bomb! Dante’s writing … holds clues to the location of a bioweapon! Also part of that formula? The presence of a spunky brunette partner for Brown’s hero, brilliant symbologist Robert Langdon.
If you haven’t seen the film yet, stop reading.
Warning: This article discusses key plot points of Inferno.
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