I of course hate Dan Brown but I figure it'd be fast and I could thank her for it, mention some interesting tidbits that are no doubt sprinkled throughout the book for idiots, and feel good about family duty. Sexton, Tolland, and Marlinson work together to battle the Delta Force squad, killing Delta Two and Delta Three.

In fact, he has treated us to a marvelously broad cast of realistic, well-developed, human, credible characters that fairly leaped off the page - Marjorie Tench, a bone deep ugly spinster bitch with an incredible set of finely, honed killer political instincts; Michael Tolland, a charismatic scholar who like David Suzuki, David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau, seemed to be able to translate real scientific knowledge unerringly into a well understood and widely appealing television format; Rachel Sexton, the daughter of the self-centered presidential hopeful senator, struggling to distance herself from politics and retain her credibility as a skilled intelligence analyst with the NRO; and Gabrielle Ashe, the starry-eyed aide who succumbed to Sexton's political reputation and got trapped in a career-killing sex scandal. The three are brought to a ship owned by Tolland in the Atlantic Ocean near the New Jersey coastline where they will hide out for the time being. Copyright © 2001 by Dan Brown --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.The senator's eyes were his gift -- a gift Rachel suspected would probably carry him to the White House. The attack causes him to fall into a small body of water that’s collected in the pit; Ming drowns as a result of the attack. The heat from the helicopter causes a whirlpool in the ocean and both the helicopter and the ship get sucked into the water’s vortex. Failing to succeed, she and Rachel cooperate to replace the meteorite fiasco evidence with photos of said affair.

I am impatient at waiting for the next one to release, so I figured I'd go back to the two I missed.

The NRO maintains an astonishing arsenal of cutting-edge spy technologies – worldwide electronic intercepts, spy satellites, silent embedded relay chips in telecomm products, even a global naval-recon network known as Classic Wizard…a secret web of 1,456 hydrophones mounted on seafloors around the world, capable of monitoring ship movement anywhere on the globe. President Herney sends a team of experts to the Arctic to verify the authenticity of the extraterrestrial insect: oceanographer Michael Tolland, astrophysicist Corky Marlinson, glaciologist Norah Mangor, paleontologist Wailee Ming, and National Reconnaissance Office employee Rachel Sexton, Senator Sexton's daughter.

Rachel alerts presidential advisor Marjorie Tench and NRO director William Pickering of the attack, and Pickering sends an air transport to bring them back to the United States. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable - evidence of scientific trickery - a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world in to controversy. When a new NASA satellite spots 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. Lately Sexton's face seemed to be on every national magazine, his campaign slogan plastered all across America: "Stop spending.Senator Thomas Sedgewick Sexton: Rachel's father and an ambitious presidential candidate in the book. The discovery comes at a time close to the United States presidential election in which her father is running.

As they flee for their lives in a lethal environment, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. Pickering, however, says that he is "sacrificing a few to save many", and that he will finish the job personally. Eventually, the Senator Sexton's true motive for wanting to abolish NASA is revealed to be his work for the interests of private corporations from the Space Frontier Foundation, who wish to profit off of space exploration in the event that NASA is dismantled.What Rachel Sexton discovers on site sent by the President of the United States is not necessarily announced to the population. It also comes at a time of presidential election and with the current President and his challenger Senator Sexton having different stances as to what to do with NASA. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.