Deception Point surprised me in its ability to captivate me immediately. They’re the types of books most people would glance over and set aside, purchased simply because the name Dan Brown was plastered on the spine. The other two books that are on my radar – Deception Point and Digital Fortress – aren’t as popular, nor are they ‘blockbuster’ books.

More than anything, Dan Brown is known more for his Robert Langdon series than for anything else.

He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing.īrown is currently at work on a new book as well as the Columbia Pictures film version of his most recent novel.Deception Point was one of those books that I didn’t have high hopes for. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history spiking tourism to Paris and Rome a growing membership in secret societies the ire of Cardinals in Rome eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it a flood of historical thrillers and a major motion picture franchise.” Brown’s novels are published in 52 languages around the world with 200 million copies in print. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.ĭan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.

But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. 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. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. 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.

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