Book Review: Deception Point

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Deception Point     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Dan Brown
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Techno Thriller   Government Agency
Pocket, Nov 2001, $25.00, 373 pp.

Though Rachel has never met President Zach Herney, her father Senator Sedgewick Sexton is upset with her because she works for the administration as an agent of the National Reconnaissance Office. Sedgewick wants his daughter to quit her job and join his campaign for the presidency as he insists her working for the administration hurts his presidential ambitions.

NASA has uncovered quite a find in the Arctic that the agency believes will help them from Sedgewick's constant bulldog attack, as the politician uses the agency as a whipping post for his executive office run. Rachel travels to the site where NASA scientists diligently work to recover a meteor, which apparently contains ET fossils. However, though she wonders why she was sent, Rachel and scientist Michael Tolland realizes nothing makes sense especially with Delta Force soldiers standing nearby seemingly ready to assault the NASA encampment.

DECEPTION POINT is an exciting techno-thriller that contains cleverly incorporated scientific know how to propel the story line forward,. When the tale resides in the Arctic, it is a powerful chilling thriller, but when the plot focuses on DC and its double crossing backstabbing political environs, the story line slows down. As a techno-thiller, Dan Brown paints a superb masterpiece; as a political thriller Mr. Brown scribes a stick figure.

Harriet Klausner

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