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Deception Point (平装)
by Dan Brown
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Virginia Lore (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-05 00:00>
In Dan Brown's Deception Point an amazing discovery above the Arctic Circle awaits verification by Rachel Sexton. Rachel is the best person to verify this discovery for the President: not only is she on his staff (as a low-level analyst for the NRO) but she is also the daughter of his most dangerous political opponent in the upcoming election. This gives her the perfect status as a skeptic to join the team of civilian scientists in the verification of this NASA find.
Within hours, however, the lives of the team are in jeopardy as they discover that not everything is as it initially appears. Thought the factions of the NRO, NASA, Senator Sexton's office and the White House are far away in Washington, someone has set into motion a series of events which makes it unlikely Rachel will escape the Arctic Circle alive. In the background of the story is Rachel's estranged relationship with her father and a budding attraction to Michael Tolland, a celebrity oceanographer on the order of Jaques Cousteau.
Deception Point is the kind of flawless page-turner that can keep you up far past your bedtime. I lost an entire night of sleep just trying to keep up with the plot twists. When a hapless geologist is pushed out of a helicopter by nameless thugs on page 2, you know you're in for something exciting. This story of political intrigue and survivalism continually turns the reader's expectations upside-down. It is escapist literature at its finest.
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Michael Trimble (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-05 00:00>
What can I say, I loved this book and I thought it was great entertainment!
NASA is on the ropes when failure after failure has them dodging budget bullets and having to justify the dollars for every project. The President, who just happens to believe in the noble cause of space exploration and the independence of that organization, is up for reelection and his challenger is gaining ground in the polls by making NASA and its existence an issue in the election.
Now, looking down from outer space and literally out of the blue, NASA discovers a 190 million year old meteorite buried under two hundred feet of ice in the Artic. The meteorite, once it is raised to the surface, shows evidence of extraterrestrial life OR does it? Is this a big win for NASA and the President, just in time for the election, or not?
Nothing is as it seems. But Rachel Sexton, someone who believes in this President, and writes intelligence briefs for the White House, is going to risk life and limb in an effort to discover the truth. And she's not going to let the fact that she also happens to be the daughter of the President's primary challenger, get in the way.
Suspend your disbelief for a couple days, kick back, and have fun reading this book. Dan Brown tells a good story, plain and simple.
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Francis Mcinerney (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-05 00:00>
Deception Point, would have rated as my second choice out of the novels that Dan Brown has written if I had not already read his newest, The Da'Vinci Code. And this is hardly a negative comment as his books continue to get better, and if I were to read, Angels And Demons, once again the best I might do is pick a tie for my favorite. But his newest is the most recently read so Angels will get the number two spot.
If you have not read this man's work you will enjoy him if you enjoy the work of Mr. Cussler. His characters are not recurring as in Mr. Cussler's work, but they share the pace and a bit of the fantastic that both authors often are known for. Dale Brown is also a fan of Dan Brown, and he too is known for his ability to have readers flipping pages as quickly as they can be read. This author has also come to be endorsed by others such as Nelson DeMille, so if you enjoy these other writers and have not tried Dan Brown, you have a great find waiting for you.
The author begins by explaining that every piece of hardware/technology used in this tale exists, and by doing so places himself in the company of others who use reality as the basis for a fantastic tale. There is plenty of existing technology that is a marvel; it does not always need to be invented to entertain.
You may remember a few years ago that NASA suggested some rock from Mars demonstrated the fossilized remains of bacteria. The author has taken a version of this idea and placed it several hundred feet under the ice above the Artic Circle, added an embattled President, and has let the fun begin. What he does particularly well in this book is to mislead the reader. He supplies all manner of undesirable people or persons so consumed with themselves after soaking in the unreality of Washington D.C. for so long, he offers plenty of people to suspect. Our nation's capital offers plenty of smarmy individuals, creating new and interesting villains and possible villains is to be commended.
Dan Brown's first book was a good read and his books have continued to improve. My favorite was easily Angels and Demons, but I think his new book will be my favorite. "Deception Point" is also worth every bit of your time if you enjoy a great yarn.
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Konrad Kern (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-05 00:00>
Dan Brown's latest scientific thriller doesn't quite match his last thriller (Angels and Demons), though it comes darn close.
As NASA's failure rate is high and it's popularity low, a much needed boost--to it's reputation--has been discovered. A NASA satellite orbiting over the Artic discovers a meteorite buried deep in the ice. It turns out that this could be the discovery of the century, for within this meteorite are numerous fossils resembling giant insects thought to have originated on another planet. Rachel Sexton (Daughter of a Senator who is out to destroy NASA and gain the presidency) works for the White House and is sent to the Artic to verify the meteorites authenticity. Rachel, working along with scientists, soon discovers some amazing facts. She also learns that nothing is as it seems.
Brown's Novels are always top notch entertainment. His characters highly likeable (Michael Tolland Reminded me of Bill Nye the science guy) and his research impeccable. The different subjects in this book covered things like Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), physics of glaciers and meteorites, the theory of Panspermia and the story behind megaplumes. The controversial subject of privatizing space exploration was also heavily written about.
Exciting, educating, and highly enjoyable. A topnotch thriller.
Highly recommended
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Dindy Robinson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-05 00:00>
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!
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Alex (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I was introduced to the books of author Dan Brown only three weeks ago, but have quickly absorbed all four of his published works. It is easy to see why some are comparing the work of Dan Brown and James BeauSeigneur (The Christ Clone Trilogy). Both Brown and BeauSeigneur deal masterfully with the more mysterious features of religion, politics, and science. Both bring to light amazing bits of information, which they weave into the intricate patterns of their stories. Both are highly imaginative and write with a ring of authenticity that makes for a compelling read. While Brown compresses labyrinthine plots into brief time periods to provide page-turning suspense, BeauSeigneur trilogy is of epic proportion, covering several decades. While Brown applies the mysteries of history to the drama of "today," BeauSeigneur uses both history and prophecy (from perhaps a dozen major world religions) to transport the reader from the world of today, to the very dawning of a new age in a story reminiscent of the scope of Asimov's classic, Foundation.
One other difference is that BeauSeigneur has taken the novel (pun intended and forgiveness is asked) approach of including footnotes in his books of fiction. By doing so, he all but eliminates the necessity of suspending disbelief. Few authors employ such strong factual grounding as to make footnotes useful, but I believe Brown's work (and his readers) would benefit from BeauSeigneur's innovation.
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Jana Perskie (MSL quote) , USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
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. He is also accepting enormous illegal campaign contributions from private aerospace companies who have billions to gain from the privatization of NASA. After many failures & much spending, NASA is badly in need of a success.
Then a NASA satellite detects a large, high-density rock buried 200 feet below the Milne Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island, high in the Arctic Circle. 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 habisphere, built over the meteor in the Arctic Circle. One of these experts is the intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton, the daughter of Senator Sedgewick Sexton. Senator Sexton is the man running for election against the President of the United States. The plot thickens.
Rachel, while in the Arctic, uncovers what could be scientific trickery - an incredible deception that could cause political and scientific upheaval and cost the President his bid for re-election. When she & her colleagues attempt to investigate further, they are plunged into life threatening danger. To escape assassination they flee for their lives. Their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this extraordinary plot and expose the truth.
Dan Brown has proven to be one of the top writers in the suspense-thriller genre. The originality of his plots, his amazingly accurate research, and his ability to catch the reader's interest from the get-go and hold it until the last word in the last sentence of the last page, make him an exceptional author. Plus, after completing each of Dan Brown's books, the reader usually comes away from the experience having learned much more than a storyline. I loved Deception Point - couldn't put it down. I also highly recommend The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.
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Paul Mason (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
Rachel Sexton is a NRO intelligence officer. Early on in the novel she is "invited" to a meeting with the President. Apprehensive about President Herney's motives since her father Sen. Sedgewick Sexton is the primary opposition not only in the upcoming election, but in virtualy every political standpoint. Especially NASA spending so Rachel reluctantly attends the meeting to be asked to endorse NASA's latest discovery...
This novel is about many things but the one that hit me in between the eyes is Ambition. Both political and personal. Dan Brown always seems to have something to say in his novels besides the main plot and here he seems to ask loudly how far would some people go to attain their ambitions.
I disagree with one review about writing Dan Brown novels while most of the statements he made may be true I disagree, in that this novel the good guys didn't wear white caps and bad guys black.
What I mean is everyone involved in the story seemed to vary in shades of gray for nine tenths of the novel. With the exception of Tolland and Rachel Sexton whose character's were pretty pure. Everyone else though seemed to do what was neccessary to do what was right in their eyes even perhaps was not right in the majority's eyes. An experienced thriller reader could perhaps guess who the ultimate villian was but by clouding the supporting casts motives I feel Brown did a superb job of building and maintaining suspense. One minor flaw is I felt his characters could've been built a bit more as I found them maybe not 2 dimensional but bordering on 2.5 dimensional, whereas as a reader ideal characters in fiction are of course 3 dimensional haha.
Although this book is about NASA (to a great extent) and its discovery, it is not rocket science. It is among the upper echelon of thrillers I would say ( as was Angels & Demons, I havem't read da Vinci code yet, but when reading it I would suggest to both Sunday readers (those reading fiction for pleasure like drivers' liesuely driving through the country admiring the scenery.) and more critical reader's (who for whatever reason if they are going to review a book or not.) to take this novel for what it is which I claim is an exciting thriller indeed.
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Michael Newman , USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
This is one of those books that you just can't put down. I read this one in record time. It centers around the discovery of a meteorite at the North Pole that contains, what appears to be, exterrestial life. Just judging by the title of the book you can determine that there is a ruse going on. And those that stumble onto the deception must be eliminated.
The action is fact-paced and the characters are extremely intriguing! I especially liked the scientists when they are so into themselves as being right that they just discount anyone that questions their analyses. Additionally, like the title also implies, not all the characters are what you think they are!
I would have rated this higher except that some of the escapes/rescues got so unbelievable that they insulted the reader's intelligence.
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Garrison (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
After being incredibly disappointed in the overhyped DaVinci Code, I decided to give author Dan Brown another try. Deception Point is as good as DaVinci Code is bad.
NASA has made a discovery in the Artcic and invites civilian scientists to verify its authenticity. The scientists make a startling discovery and from there the chase is on as Rachel Sexton (daughter of presidential candidate Sedgewick Sexton), Michael Tolland and Corky Marlinson must outwit the Delta Force team on their tail. The book throws many twists and turns at you.
I had a few complaints. The plot revolves around NASA as the center of a presidential election, which even today seems incredibly far fetched. Also, the ending is somewhat of a let down between Senator Sexton and Rachel.
The fun of this books is following the characters and their pursuit for the truth. Their discoveries aren't that amazing, but the trials they go through to make those discoveries had me on the edge of my seat.
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