- Author: Dan Brown
- Book: Deception Point
- Pages: 239
Another thriller from the best. All the technologies described in this novel are real and they actually exist.
A extremely well written novel about technologies, politics, deception, a perfect thriller for book lovers. Dan Brown has got amazing imagination to put together such a master piece. The details of the scenes will be so vivid that you will feel that you are watching an actual movie.
This is a story about a meteorite found in Arctic Circle that may provide proof of extraterrestrial life.
Deception Point opens in Washington, DC, during a tight Presidential campaign. The incumbent, a man of strong principles, is a major NASA supporter. His opponent, who is basing his campaign on turning NASA into a private, non-governmental agency, thus saving the US taxpayer billions of dollars annually, is way up in the polls. After many failures & much spending, NASA is badly in need of a success.
NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ocean, the sinking space agency proclaims a much needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. NASA scientists determine the rock to be a meteor containing fossils proving that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House sends a team of independent experts to the NASA habi-sphere, built over the meteor in the Arctic Circle. One of these experts is the intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton, the daughter of Senator Sedgewick Sexton, the man running for election against the President of the United States.
Rachel with his team travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable evidence of scientific trickery - a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the president, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a team of assassins.
Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and dangerous landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.
Read this unputdownable hit from the master of the suspense thriller.