Inferno is a noun that means a very large uncontrolled fire. Learn how to use this word in sentences with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and other sources. Inferno is a thriller film based on Dan Brown's novel, starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. It follows Langdon and a doctor as they try to stop a biological weapon inspired by Dante's Inferno . 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. [1] 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 ... Please turn off any such services that might route your internet connection from outside of your current region.