In Dan Brown's new thriller, "Inferno," Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is, once again, in a jam. He wakes up in Florence suffering from amnesia after getting shot in the head. He's being hunted by armed attackers that appear to have been sent by his own government. And he has less than a day to stop a madman's plot to kill billions of people. So he calls his editor in New York, Jonas Faukman, and asks if he might possibly make use of the publishing house's corporate jet account to complete his mission. His editor is curt: "We don't have access to private jets for authors of tomes about religious history....