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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: November 01, 2001
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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.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. 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 into controversy.
But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
In his most thrilling novel to date, bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed thriller Angels & Demons, Brown has crafted another novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. Deception Point is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.
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Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his very first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.
The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.
Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.
Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the subsequent Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler
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After the very first few pages, I should have known right off that Dan Brown still has that bigoted, narrow minded chip on his shoulder when an obvious Bill Clinton-type smarmy presidential candidate is labeled as a Republican. Because in Dan Brown world anybody remotedly conservative, or religious, is bad,bad bad bad and every liberal is good. Well I guess there is a reason this is under fiction!
Very convuluted....preachy and pretty much boring....the book started sounding like Charlie Brown's teachers...wah wah wah wah wah.... If you LOVE Dan Brown, you might like this -- and as is typical of all his novels, make sure you have a heavy, heavy dose of suspending your disbelief (and that's just in the very first few pages)!! Not worth buying, but maybe checking out at the library....only if you're on a desserted island and there's nothin' else to do..
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Like others already wrote, i enjoyed the beginning of the book. I have read "the Swarm" and this reminded me a little of that great book. I got excited cause I thought this will be great. Unfortunately it cannot compete with "the Swarm" in any way because things just get too crazy, there are too many twists.
Everything is just confusing. I didnt enjoy this book as much as i have enjoyed Angels and Demon.
If you really want a phantastic read with lots of knowledge and a great plot then read "The Swarm" by Frank Schaetzing. Its an amazing book.
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After I read The da Vinci Code I immediately picked up this book from Amazon. The book started off very interesting and kept my interest until the plot started to take off. About half way through the book it was very painful to read, everything about it was so far fetched. The very very first page of the book says that the technology in this book is real. When you read the book you realize how stupid someone must be to believe that technology like this exists. Its like The da Vinci code, where Dan Brown appears on television saying that the Priory of Sion is real and existed after Christ's death and is still around today, even after the Priory of Sion was proved to be a hoax, created in 1956. Knowing that Dan Brown sincerely believes that these things exist in the world makes reading this book very difficult, at least for me. Also, at the end where the assistant was bleeding in shark infested waters in a boat, and he urinates on himself to mask the "smell" of the blood to the sharks is simply ridiculous. Sharks don't smell blood, they sense an enzyme that exists in blood. Well, the enzyme also exists in urine, making that entire scene entirely impossible. Dan tries to bring real world technology to make the story more interesting. When I realized that he's making everything up, and says you to believe it because he says its true, I felt that he was insulting my intelligence. From then on the read became a colossal waste of time. Reading the da Vinci code made me want to read every book Dan Brown ever wrote, reading Deception Point makes me think twice about picking up a copy of Angels and Demons.
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Very exciting book, mostly read it because it was dan brown and I was interested to see what kind of book this was considering it wasn't related to religion like his other more famous books. Like his other books if you take it very seriously you'll probably have some problems with it, but if your simply looking for a science related thriller then this book is it.
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This is book is a great example of how sometimes good writers are lost in the twists and turns of their own work. The book starts with a great promise, but ends rather anticlimactically. The main character Rachel seems quite confused as she, in the very first 95% of the novel, is risks her life to get evidence of the truth and spends last 5% of the novel trying to hide the same evidence. She starts with philosophy of 'having no assumptions only evidence' but at the end accepts the innocence of one party without any proof. Even though most of the book is interesting the end is disappointing.
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