All artwork, literature,science, an

All artwork, literature,
science, and historical
references in this novel are
real.
“The Consortium” is a
private organization with
offices in seven countries.
Its name has been
changed for considerations
of security and privacy.
Inferno is the underworld
as described in Dante
Alighieri’s epic poem The
Divine Comedy , which
portrays hell as an
elaborately structured
realm populated by entities
known as “shades”—
bodiless souls trapped
between life and death.