In this work, Dan Brown made the book more interesting because he kept a light on a different direction. Our world is already ruled in the shadow of political games. The realities know they can only read between the lines.

After I read The DaVinci Code, which I liked, and Angels and Demons, which I loved I put the other Dan Brown books on my wish list. I was recently sent this one as part of a bookring and decided to read it.

Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about NASA funding for ever. Reluctantly agreeing to view the find Rachel is whisked off to the North Pole. What she finds once she gets there takes her breath away. However, she quickly learns that nothing is what it seems, and, with two civilian scientists, is soon fleeing for her life. Stranded on an ice berg they are rescued in the nick of time by a nuclear submarine, but once back in the US their attempts to expose the plot show them that they can trust absolutely no one...

I ended up enjoying it but found that it lacked the fast pacing that the previous books had (especially Angels and Demons). Only the last third of the book equals them in the action department. Till then things happen but there's no sense of urgency wether in finding the clues or running away from the killers. The plot was nicely done, the find was surprising but I suppose one of the reasons I enjoyed the other books was because they dealt with historical people and monuments. Here it's meteorites and ocean life I don't find that as interesting. It's really me and not the book but sometimes a thriller is so nicely written that can sell me any subject, that was not the case here. Rachel and Tolland were really nice characters and as is usual in the Dan Brown books they give in to their attraction in the end.

Grade: C+, entertaining but forgettable.

Deception Point, Dan Brown

Deception Point is a 2001 thriller novel written by Dan Brown.

A NASA satellite finds evidence of a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, NASA proclaims a much-needed victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the upcoming presidential election.

With the White House in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton and a team of experts to the Milne Ice Shelf to confirm the authenticity of the find.

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «نقطه فریب»؛ «تزویر»؛ «حقیقت یخی»؛ نویسنده: دن براون؛ تاریخ خوانش: روز بیست و پنجم ماه جولای سال2010میلادی

عنوان: نقطه فریب؛ نویسنده: دن براون؛ مترجم نوشین ریشهری؛ تهران، نگارینه، 1384، در 256ص؛ چاپ دوم 1385؛ شابک9647533756؛ چاپ دیگر سال 1388، در 440ص؛ شابک: 9789647533751؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان امریکایی - سده 20م

عنوان: حقیقت یخی؛ نویسنده: دن براون؛ مترجم ندا شادنظر؛ تهران، افراز، 1388؛ در 485ص، چاپ دوم 1388؛ شابک 9789642837069؛چاپ چهارم: تهران، افراز، 1396؛ در 505ص؛ شابک 9789642837069؛ ترجمه از متن ایتالیائی با عنوان
La Verità Del Ghiaccio

عنوان: تزویر؛ نویسنده: دن براون؛ مترجم عمید حقیقت جو؛ تهران، معین، 1389، در 518ص؛ شابک 9789641650294؛

داستانی تخیلی از دسیسه های «ناسا»، در میان یخهای قطب است، «دن براون» این اثر را در سال 2001میلادی منتشر کردند، البته که به گیرائی «راز داوینچی» نیست، ولی هیجان دارد؛ رمان «نقطه ی فریب» نویسنده «دن براون»؛ با ترجمه بانو «نوشین ریشهری»؛ را انتشارات نگارینه، در سال 1384هجری خورشیدی، و چاپ دوم آنرا در سال 1385هجری خورشیدی، و چاپ سوم را در سال 1388هجری خورشیدی؛ در256ص، منتشر کرده، همین رمان با عنوان «تزویر» و با ترجمه ی جناب «مهدی حقیقت جو»، در518ص، را نیز انتشارات معین در سال 1389هجری خورشیدی منتشر کرده است؛ و با عنوان: «حقیقت یخی»، با ترجمه بانو: ندا شادنظر، در485ص، در سال 1388، در انتشارات افراز، منتشر شده است

داستان «تزویر»؛ یا «نقطه فریب»، یا «حقیقت یخی»؛ از آنجایی آغاز می‌شود، که زمین شناس نامداری، در سرزمین‌های «قطب شمال»، به اکتشافی دست پیدا می‌کند، هلی‌کوپتری می‌آید، و پس از مدتی سوار کردن آنها، بدون هیچ حرف و بحثی، آنها را، به بالای کوه‌ها، و از هلیکوپیر به بیرون پرت می‌کنند؛ سپس داستان، به روزهای انتخاباتی می‌کشد؛ جایی که «سناتور سنکستون»، برای پیروزی در انتخابات «ریاست جمهوری»، با رئیس جمهور فعلی، «زاکاری هنری»، رقابت می‌کند، و در انتخاب نخستین، «سنکستون»، از رئیس جمهور کنونی، پیشی گرفته است؛ «سنکستون» دختری به نام «ریچل» دارد، که برای سازمان اطلاعات کار می‌کند، و اخبار محرمانه ی «کاخ سفید» را، ایشان تهیه می‌کند؛ «ریچل» از پدرش، برای دورویی و تزویرش، دل چرکین است، و از سوی دیگر، «زاکاری هنری» نیز می‌خواهد، او را به سوی خود بکشاند؛ برهان پیروز «سنکستون» در گزینش اولیه، انتقادات او، از «ناسا» است، و این در حالیست، که رئیس جمهور بیش از دو هفته نیست، که به مقر کاخ سفید رفته، او در جزیره‌ ای که پژوهشهای «ناسا» انجام می‌شود،‌ اقامت گزیده، و ظاهرا کشف خیلی بزرگی، در «ناسا» سرانجام یافته است؛ و...؛

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 17/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 23/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

I enjoyed this different side of Dan Brown, and felt this was a fantastic thriller in of itself!

DECEPTION POINT – VG
Brown, Dan – 2nd book, Stand Alone

Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded deep within the arctic ice. And it isn't just any meteor. Inside the huge rock, which crashed to earth in 1716, are fossils of giant insects proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet, given NASA's slipping reputation, the question arises: Is the meteor real or a fake? That uncertainty dogs NASA and its supporters in Brown's latest page-flipper, a finely polished amalgam of action and intrigue. Trying to determine the truth are intelligence agent Rachel Sexton and popular oceanographer Michael Tolland, both among the first to suspect something is amiss when the meteor is pulled from the ice. Their doubts quickly make them the targets of a mysterious death squad controlled by someone or something that doesn't want the public to hear the meteor may be a fraud. Together, Sexton and Tolland scramble across arctic glaciers, take refuge on ice floes, are rescued by a nuclear submarine, then find themselves trapped aboard a small research vessel off the coast of New Jersey. All the while, the nation's capital is buzzing as to whether NASA has engaged in deception. Or is NASA just a dupe for aerospace companies that have long wanted a bigger share of space contracts?

A rip-roaring action thriller by the author of The Da Vinci Code. This is a stand-alone focused on a Presidential election, NASA and a remarkable discovery. Another non-stop ride.

This a fun read. Better than a couple of the Langdon novels. If you are reading Brown only for Langdon, you are missing out!

My favorite Dan Brown novel.

Just like his Robert Langdon series this is sometimes a little silly but, like the better Langdon novels, it's also a lot of page-turning fun.

It's about NASA's discovery of a meteorite in the Arctic ice which seems to contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This would be a huge success for NASA after years of failure.

It also comes at a time of presidential election and with the current President and his challenger Senator Sexton having different stances as to what to do with NASA.
The discovery of the meteorite therefore becomes part of political powerplay in Washington and Sexton's daughter who's working for the NRO gets caught up in it.

She's sent to the Arctic along with oceanographer Michael Tolland and some other scientists and, suffice it to say, things do not go as planned and soon people are either running for their lives or searching for the truth or both.

The themes of that story are much more appealing to me compared to the other Dan Brown novels I've read. And this makes me much more willing to give him a pass for some of his cheap tricks and the odd scene that requires the suspending of disbelief.

4.5 stars

I had a lot of fun with this book and in fact do still rank it among my favorites.

As a stand-alone Dan Brown book this one was interesting and did hold its own against Robert Langdon and his never ending series. 3.5 stars rounded down.

Rachel Sexton handles data communications for national intelligence, her father is running for President against the corporation she helps run.
A NASA discovery sets off a chain of events that rapidly spirals out of control.

The book has a lot of technical jargon that made me switch off a little in the middle as my brain felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of it. The chapters are also set from different perspectives; this was enjoyable but sometimes chapters were a page long and the book seemed to be a bit haphazard at times.

Overall this was an enjoyable read, the twist at the end I never guessed.. I was vilifying completely the wrong character! The end really saved the book in my opinion as all the ulterior motives came out that were so nuanced before you barely noticed.

I have officially read every Dan Brown book and I am begging for more. I did not find Deception Point as good as Dan Brown's other novels, but it was still an instant classic that kept me on my toes.

This novel was more of a political thriller, since it follows a secret NASA and the American Government have been hiding from the public. It was a well thought out plot with great character development, but I wanted more out of the novel. I wanted a little more suspense and thrills in this novel similar to Digital Fortress.

This novel had nothing wrong with it other than me being selfish and wanting more action and thrills. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a quick read with thrills and unexpected plot twists. A great novel!

I also want a sequel to this novel, since I want to see all the backlash that happens after the secret is discovered, and the continued building of relationships between some of the main characters. But alas, I doubt we will get one anytime soon from Dan Brown. I will hope though. There is a lot of potential for the characters in this book for further novels, and potentially discovering other secrets different Governments or agencies have hidden away from the public.

Four out of five stars, since I wanted more action and thrills.

This is a real page turner. Quite an easy read that pulls the reader in with a fascinating plot, the occasional twist, and an energy to his writing that keeps one thinking where the story is leading to. Dan Brown manages to paint a vivid picture of the characters and surroundings, without laboring on details. Highly recommended.

Daha önce okuduğum kitaplardan aldığım Brown tadını alamadım.

Fast paced thriller, which is enjoyable, albeit lots of technical jargon, and in typical Dan Brown fashion, decidedly far fetched!