Inferno

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After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer?Allen Carpentier?wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's?landed in a great?opportunity?for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's?road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the?Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini,?and encounters countless mental and?physical?tortures.?As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present day. ?