Deception Point

This is one of my favorite books, I would love to see this on the big screen. If they could stay true to the story!

I found Deception Point to be very well written, fully developed characters and plenty of action. Almost impossible to put down after you got started. Many twist and turns with a totally surprising ending!

Although Dan Brown became famous with The DaVinci Code, Deception Point, written and published before DaVinci, demonstrates that he is a master of the thriller. This book has everything you could want in a page turner- suspense, intrigue, romance, sex, humor, adventure, and good, strong, likable characters. The main protagonist is Rachel Sexton, a gister- someone who writes a digest of the reports of various intelligence agencies for President Zach Herney. Rachel's father is Senator Sedgwick Sexton, a major opponent of the president. The relationship between Sexton and his daughter is appropriately tense-- he doesn't like her working for his opponent, she doesn't like his politics. They try to keep their political differences from affecting their relationship but don't always succeed. Rachel is quite happy in her job when one day she is called to meet with the president and then is whisked off to a glacier in the frozen Arctic where a secret NASA facility has been built. Her job is to validate the discovery of an immense, round, extraterrestrial meteor with fossils embedded in it. This is an important discovery for NASA, as they have increasingly come under fire in recent years because of their many mission problems. Senator Sedgwick is one of their biggest opponents. If Rachel can validate this discovery as authentic, it will provide a huge boost to NASA's image. After examining all the evidence and talking to all the scientists at the site, Rachel is convinced that the artifact is genuine. She is thrust in front of a camera to announce the discovery to White House staff- and then the fun begins. The action starts fast and furious as Rachel and oceanographer Michael Tolland escape attack from an elite Delta force, parachute across the ice, drop into the frozen ocean and are rescued by a nuclear submarine. This is just the first third of the book, but the remaining chapters are equally thrilling and keep the reader on the edge of their seat. I listened to the audio version of this book, narrated capably by Boyd Gaines. The book was thrilling, exciting, and hard to put down. There were enough twists and turns in the plot until it was impossible to know who could be trusted. At the end, Brown wraps everything up in a tidy, satisfactory way. Definitely a 5-star read!

It's been quite some time since I've read a book as tight, exciting, and twisty as Deception Point. I think the last author to bowl me over so quickly was Dean Koontz (his early years, not now). This novel has just about everything you need for a stay-up-all-night read and absolutely nothing you don't need. It's very well-paced, and I swear this is one of the hardest books to put down. Until I read his debut novel, Digital Fortress, and was bowled over again by this new author. He just has a knack for getting you hooked right from the start and not weighing you down with a lot of character development until you're ready. And by this I mean he doesn't spend the first 50-100 pages introducing the main players and boring the socks off of you like a lot of authors do now. He gradually unveils each character over the course of the novel, so like in real life, you get to know them over a period of time. Dan Brown reminds me so much of when Koontz used to write like this, but now all his books are all about the character, and the action, plot, and narrative are secondary. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for character development, but I simply can't remember all there is to know about a person when 50 pages are devoted to them back to back. Just doesn't work, at least for me. So, read the plot outline above, and if sounds like a genre that will appeal to you, give it a go. I will say that Dan Brown can take the most complicated subject matter and boil it down into something completely understandable. And when I look up some of the things he writes about, I find that all his plot devices are based in fact. How refreshing! So when his prologue or author's note says such-and-such are real places and/or devices, believe him. This is one author who does his homework, and the reader is the beneficiary of all this knowledge. You will walk away from his books feeling completely refreshed, not ripped off, and ready to find his next little gem tucked away somewhere on Amazon!

This review refers to the audio CD. Dan Brown has quite an imagination, having his characters make unexpected reactions to otherwise predictable events. However, one must ignore a lot of details in order to enjoy the adventures his characters get into. How long can a woman in an insulated flight suit go without a bathroom break or food -- or makeup and a change of underwear for that matter? How gullible does a presidential briefer have to be to submit to unplanned, unexplained assignments that are akin to kidnapping? How naive is the top campaign aide to a senator when she confesses to not knowing about a bill that the president vetoed numerous times? What kind of analyst would take evidence at face value based on hearsay and about a half hour of research? What kind of scientists could, as a team, be swept up in a barrage of facts to the point that they ignore their own science? As with his block buster work, The DaVinci Code, Brown forces us to go back to the encyclopedia and look up a lot of things to separate fact from fiction in science, history and current events. Old folks like I get confused when we can't tell fact from fiction. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining book if the reader (or listener in this case) doesn't keep saying "I didn't know that", or "Did that really happen?". It's also easy to keep up with the narration when distracted by driving or conversation, because there are a lot of details that the reader can do without and still enjoy the story.

I love how Dan Brown develops his characters. His story lines keep you on the edge of your seat. fast paced and exciting

I would definitely recommend this for a read. I couldn't put it down.

Engaging, well-explained, the writer has captured all the small small details and tried to show them elegantly and also kinda mysterious story. But chapter 127, 128 and 129 felt boring because the same plot (same incident) was exaggerated felt like it was stretched. Apart from these 3 chapters overall the story was awesome. I like Dan Brown's books. Must read if you are a new bee in reading books maybe such stories will increase your curiosity, imagination as well as your reading habit.

Todo excelente

Me ha encantado. Es muy cómodo el formato. Es ligero. Con las tapas suficientemente duras para ser cómodas pero sin que se estropeen las tapas. Perfecto.