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Deception Point
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Manufacturer: Pocket
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416524809
ISBN: 1416524800
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket

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Editorial Reviews:

A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel 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 lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.


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Summary: Not The Best Dan Brown Novel
Comment: This is probably not the first Dan Brown novel you would pick to read since The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons are the more famous work, therefore it is hard not to compare Deception Point with Brown's other novels. Deception Point gives the same Dan Brown's thriller factor, but it lacks in believability and relies too much on perfect coincidences.

The plot was very predictable (the title is a very big hint) and the characters are very one-dimensional. You would expect the characters to be very enlightened after the outrageous things they went through in the book, but they were left unchanged. Also, the final revelation didn't have a big impact on the story (unlike Brown's other novels). The climax was very unconvincing (SPOILER: I don't see how three professional assassins failed again and again to kill the three protagonists)... I guess readers have to really use their imagination and go along with Brown's plot to fully enjoy the absurdness towards the end.

This is not a bad political-thriller by all means, but too much events in this novel are coincidental and unconvincing. I did enjoy the separate plots connecting together in the end, but the shallow characters were too predictable and boring to read.

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Summary: Hard as Rock
Comment: Dan Brown doesn't mess around with science; he uses rock hard facts that will blow your mind. As is his style, Brown delivers plenty of intense action, crafty characters, almost ludicrous dilemmas, and twists that leave you spinning. Read it! -Stephen Prins, author of: Strife of the Lorin

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Summary: Just okay.
Comment: It's an ok beach book. Nothing more.
But I agree with many of the criticisms I've read from other reviewers. First, the cardboard characters. Way too politically correct (Villain: white male Republican. Heroine: young, pretty intelligence analyst who outsmarts the male scientists and outfights special forces soldiers. ALternate heroine: young, pretty, black political wonk who outsmarts her aforementioned white male politician boss, and everybody else. With the aid of her female news reporter friend. You go, girls!).
Second, Brown alleges that all the technology in the book is real. I'm skeptical about the flying microbot -- at least with the degree of control to fly it into the eye of a person who is moving his head around. Also the rifle that manufactures bullets from snow or sand packed into its handle. Real -- or just on the drawing board? But I outright challenge the idea that there's an F-14 version that can fly 6,000 miles without refueling -- some of that distance on afterburner. And if Brown is not being entirely honest when he says all this is real -- I wonder what it tells me about his assurances that his most famous work also contains true accounts of historical events and organizations?

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Summary: ehhhh...if you really have nothing else going on......
Comment: I could see Steven Seagal in a movie version of this book and then I would wait until that movie was a last option on late night TNT. There were some "ok" parts of the book followed by more let downs. It's almost like Dan Brown had writers block and the publisher was screaming for the conclusion.

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Summary: Da vinci code this is not.
Comment: Dan Brown is definitely the king of the "smart novel". There is definitely alot of "jargon" in this book. Most of it geology. While I'm not sure how much of it is legit and how much isn't, I am certain that it made this novel harder to enjoy.

Spoiler Alert:
There's alot to do with chrondules. Don't know what chrondules are? Me neither, and it could seriously effect how much you enjoy this book.

It's written similar to the other Dan Brown novels. Trying to keep you on the edge of your seat with vague references to events that will completely revealed one piece at a time. This was done much better in the Da Vinci Code, and only medicore in this book.

It was enjoyable, but certainly not a must read.


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