Another fast-paced thriller dealing with the NSA from Dan Brown. I found this novel to be right on par with Digital Fortress and thought that it was a very well-written thriller. From start to finish Deception Point takes the ball and runs with it like any other Dan Brown thriller. I like that the plot moves around in scenery from the Arctic to Washington, DC and a few points in-between keeping the action flowing and the characters moving around instead of being static in one place. The characters are well written and believable and, in this book, Brown has written another very strong female lead character as he also did in Digital Fortress. A senator's daughter is unhappy with her father; he's running for president and trying to muzzle her. She works for an agency that supports the current president. She's unwilling to quit and come work for her father to help his campaign, which is dangerously close to getting enough votes to win the upcoming election. And that's just a side plot! NASA discovers a meteor with interesting data. Someone is murdered in the Arctic wilderness in the opening scene. A young woman is sleeping with a politician and hoping to further her career. How does it all connect? Oh boy... in many ways. With the White House in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton and a team of experts to the Milne Ice Shelf to confirm the authenticity of the find. The stories center around a Harvard University professor whose expertise in religious symbology and iconography takes him around the world, exposing the secrets of the Catholic Church. And the longer he keeps earnestly plugging away, the more the reader warms to him. There’s a winning innocence to Brown’s work, especially as rather than just produce a chase thriller with added sudoku, he is determined to take on the most fundamental issues of human existence.”

It may seem so 'cliché' by the beginning, a typical Hollywood movie where you know they are gonna stop the bomb 3 seconds before it BoooM , and the good Americans wins, the bad whoever foreigner loses.. All of Dan Brown's U.S. royalties will be donated to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to support music education for children worldwide. I thought I will miss Langdon so much, yet there's still touristic historical visits, blowing mind information, not just about Internet and digital codes, but even more. Like the atomic bombs and ,of course, NSA.. which I'm sure not many heard about 15 years ago ,when the novel released and it was Netscape ,when the Internet wasn't that big...

The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

Zachary Herney: Presiden Amerika Serikat, dikritik karena pengeluaran uang A.S. yang boros di daerah dengan hasil rendah (termasuk pencarian sia-sia untuk kehidupan di luar bumi) sementara bidang penting negara (seperti pendidikan) kekurangan dana. Peristiwa dalam cerita tersebut membawanya untuk merevisi pemborosan pemerintah. One can see that Brown is still tinkering around with his writing style, not always sure where to go and more trying to go futuristic and techy than uchronic and historic. I am heavily biased towards anything Sci-Fi, so I do definitively just give 4 stars because of the setting, without it, it would be closer to a 3. On the eve of a US presidential election, an incredible discovery looks set to change the entire political landscape as Nasa finds an enormous meteorite buried in the Milne glacier, high in the Arctic, containing fossils - proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Chris Harper: NASA section manager; he appears in four dedicated chapters and explains how NASA did not find the meteorite as claimed. When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory…a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election.Authentication team: During the story, NASA invites five external experts to help authenticate the meteorite finding as secondary sources:

Rachel Sexton: A data analyst for NRO and Senator Sexton's daughter, Rachel's relationship with her father is antagonistic because of his infidelity, which indirectly contributed to her mother's death in an accident. Her involvement in the authentication is eventually proven to be purely political. Like Digital Fortress, Deception Point is a stand-alone novel and is not part of the Robert Langdon series Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn,” Good Reads says. “A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognises the object as an ancient invitation... one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.” Rachel Sexton: Seorang analis data untuk putri NRO dan Senator Sexton, hubungan Rachel dengan ayahnya bersifat antagonis karena perselingkuhannya, yang secara tidak langsung berkontribusi pada kematian ibunya dalam sebuah kecelakaan. Keterlibatannya dalam otentikasi akhirnya terbukti murni politis.In addition, the director of Cern soon learns that a canister filled with a type of matter that has the destructive power equal to a nuclear bomb has been stolen from Cern and hidden somewhere in the Holy See. The writing style of Dan Brown is fantastic and I enjoyed the whole experience of reading the book, even more since in some novels you have a very good main plot but some dull secondary plot and/or scenes that you feel "dragged" when you have to read those chapters, but in my personal experience with the novel, I enjoyed to read the whole book with all its plots.

I have officially read every Dan Brown book and I am begging for more. I did not find Deception Point as good as Dan Brown's other novels, but it was still an instant classic that kept me on my toes. A novel full of events, facts and information to me can be learned and heard very well, the first time I read the writer Dan Brown and frankly a good but great writer. This book is written in way that if you are fan of Michael Crichton books, you will like this one too. It has a narrative style so engaging that I enjoyed a lot the reading experience. The discovery of the meteorite therefore becomes part of political powerplay in Washington and Sexton's daughter who's working for the NRO gets caught up in it.Chris Harper: manajer bagian NASA; dia muncul dalam empat bab khusus dan menjelaskan bagaimana NASA tidak menemukan meteorit seperti yang diklaim. Susan Fletcher is the best code breaker NSA has. Susan Fletcher is also beautiful and perfect and everyone loves her and wants to do her. Susan Fletcher has a brilliant mind. Susan Fletcher is also very attractive. Susan Fletcher is also smart. People look at Susan Fletcher and think to themselves “How does an IQ of 170 fit into a body that attractive? I am going to think more of these thoughts so that the reader of Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress will know what Susan Fletcher looks like in the book Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.” Lawrence Ekstrom: Administrator of NASA; serves no purpose in the book beyond attracting suspicion.