Deception Point

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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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736 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2001

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Format
736 pages, Paperback
Published
April 1, 2006 by Pocket Books
ISBN
ASIN
B0DSY2XQVY
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Rachel Sexton

    Rachel Sexton

    A data analyst for NRO and Senator Sextons daughter, Rachels relationship with her father is antagonistic because of his infidelity, which indirectly contributed to her mothers death in an accident. Her involvement in the authentication ...

  • Michael Tolland

    Michael Tolland

    An oceanographer and television celebrity-scientist, Tolland possesses excellent educational and social skills and does not exhibit unchecked anger, as other characters do. Tolland can remain calm under fire and think out of the box....

  • Thomas Sedgewick Sexton
  • Corky Marlinson
  • Zachary Herney
  • William Pickering

About the author

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Dan 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. Brown's novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.

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.”

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. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. 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. He lives in New England with his yellow lab, Winston.

Brown's latest novel, Origin, explores two of the fundamental questions of humankind: Where do we come from? Where are we going?

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April 25,2025
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رواية مميزة بكل تفاصيلها التي تشدك في كل لحظة من الإثارة والتشويق المتواصل بلا حدود وغير القابل للتوقع
وكلما حاولت البعد عن قراءتها وأخذ نفس بسيط لتستوعب الأحداث تجد نفسك مضطرا لإستكمال القراءة لشوقك لمعرفة ما سيجري وإذا استطعت التخمين ولو للحظة فستفشل
بعد أن اكتشف قمر صناعي جديد لناسا جسماً نادراً بصورة مذهلة مدفوناً في أعماق المتجمد الشمالي أعلنت وكالة الفضاء المتخبطة نصراً كانت تحتاجه بشدة... نصر ذو تضمينات عميقة بالنسبة لسياسة الفضاء الأمريكية والانتخابات الرئاسية القادمة. وفي هذا الوضع العصيب للمكتب الرئاسي يرسل الرئيس محللة البيت الأبيض الاستخباراتية راشيل سيكستون إلى الحيد الجليدي في ميلني وذلك للتأكد من مصداقية هذا الاكتشاف مصحوبة بفريق من الخبراء بما فيهم العالم الأكاديمي الساحر مايكل تولاند تكتشف راشيل أمراً لا يمكن التفكير به: دليل قاطع على حيلة علمية بارعة - خديعة وقحة تهدد بإقحام العالم في جدال فظيع.

ولكن قبل أن تتمكن راشيل من الاتصال بالرئيس تتعرض هي ومايكل إلى هجوم من قبل فريق مميت من السفاحين يخضع لسلطة سياسية غامضة.
April 25,2025
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A meteor that's been around for 100s of years is discovered to have proof of alien life by NASA! Agent Rachel Sexton and celebrity oceanographer Michael Tolland, become some of the first to suspect something is amiss and when they start looking into it.. direct threats are made of their lives! Is this a huge fabrication to shore up space contacts for the corporates or is it actually real?
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Another huge, but strangely believable story by the master of this type of populist writing :) Another solid 8 out of 12 if not for readability, for entertainment.
April 25,2025
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It was a page-turning experience alright - only while reading it.

After I finished the last page, I have never thought about this book ever again. I'm not even sure where I keep it or if I still have it at all. Seriously, overall not impressed by this one.
April 25,2025
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Ok I have read 4 of the 5 Dan Brown books and I have come up with a user friendly recipe that anyone can use to create their own pulp fiction Dan Brown creation.
Add 1 strong, intelligent, attractive career woman.
Add 1 semi-strong, (but not as strong as the woman) man, that is semi-sucessful in his chosen career path (but not as successful as the woman) attractive, sensitive and totally not threatened by the strong intelligent woman.
Mix these two well but don't over mix because they will spend most of the book kinda liking each other, but not in a way that de-tracts from the main storyline even though its obvious that at the end they will end up in each other arms/beds, but not in a shades of grey kind of way.
Add 2 strong older, successful authoritative men, that are firm but fair and take the strong intelligent woman seriously, mentor here but are protective because they:
a. secretly love her or b. see her as a daughter replacement.
Add a sprinkling of other characters that move the storyline along, add some comic value but you don't really have to invest much time or thought into.
Add a large helping of historical/scientific facts that are inaccurate (or that sound pretty accurate to the non-educated reader) or have stolen from an already written, less reader friendly, non-fiction book that not many people know about or have read.
Add a splash of professional killer/killers hunting down the main characters, but are obviously not professional enough to kill them off.
Mix all ingredients together and select a couple of back drops that are slightly exotic and may help the tourism industry in this particular location.
Cook ingredients for 400-600 pages with short chapters that move back and forth between scenes, ensuring the low attention span reader does not get too bored.
Finally serve with a 'twist' that the evil person hunting them down/causing the drama is one of the old trusted guys that the strong woman trusted and is totally shocked and devastated but leaves no lasting or significant psychological impacts or male trust issues.
Voila; you now have a big chunk of Dan Brown magic!
April 25,2025
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What can I say? This book rules. Point blank, period.

It's like the X Files meets The West Wing. If you liked either of those back in the day, strap in for a real page turner. This is without a doubt my favorite Dan Brown book which is surprising because everyone usually goes right for the Robert Langdon series (Da Vinci Code, Origins, Angels and Demons etc.) but this stand alone story is great.

Aliens, check.
CIA Black Ops, check.
Presidential Candidate covering up sex scandal, check.





April 25,2025
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dear reader,

My first Dan Brown novel. It kept me turning from page to page, thrilled by the action and fast paced plot. Lost by everything that was going on at once for more times I can care to count. Baffled at the new information the author was hurling at me all at once. Confused by the sudden and unexpected plot twists. And frustrated at the stupidity of human simpleness when reasoning possible motives for the death of their comrades or whatever.

The twist and motives for the treason weren't strong enough for me, and it lacked flow and intellect. The main character is female, strong, intelligent, beautiful, and rich (I didn't expected less from Mr. Brown). Anyway, typical super heroine from an action book.

I wanted more than just thoughtless and senseless action from the book. I was expecting a cunning and deliberate plot twists that I didn't see coming, but I eventually settled with it, considering it brilliant, beyond amazingness. The book fell short from it.

The dialogues are comical, but most of the times I found myself rolling my eyes to the "quirky" and "witty" comments of the characters. Please, nobody will ever say what you're saying, or joking the way you're joking!

Anyway. I didn't feel the "deception" the book describes, I just felt sheer disappointment.

happy reading,

CS
April 25,2025
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After I have read this, I swore to myself that I am not going to read a Dan Brown book anymore. Though this book is not the worst ever, I just prefer Dan Brown's classics -- and by that, I mean the 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons'. :)
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