رواية مفعمة بالاثارة زاد من جمالها ذلك الخيال المرتبط بالتكنولوجيا وتلك المعلومات التقنية التي وظفها دان براون ضمن نسق منظم وجميل . لا يخلو الكتاب من نقد مبطن وايضا صريح لامريكا وذلك الاسراف الذي يضيع هباء من اجل الهوس الفضائي والغلو فيه يعيب الرواية تلك الاطالة التي يكثر فيها الكاتب من التفاصيل التي بعضها لا تفيد القارئ وسوف ينساها باي حال بعد الانتهاء من قراءتها ولكن بشكل عام الرواية جذابة وتستحق القراءة وهي مشوقة لآخر مدى.

Uzun zaman önce okudum. Tek hatırladığım kitabı sevmemiştim. Ve bu yüzden de bir daha Dan Brown okumamıştım elimde başka kitapları olmasına rağmen. İçim yanıyor.

This is one of the few books I wanted to throw across the room. Especially when the protagonist starts tapping Morse code out on the iceberg to attract the patrolling nuclear submarine. Give me a break.

في البدء كنت متخوفة جدا من قراءة عمل لدان براون لا تجري فيه تحقيقات ورموز وآثار يحللها روبرت لانغدون ... الا انني في الواقع استبدلت لانغدون بمايكل تولاند

Multe i se pot reproșa lui Dan Brown dar nu și aceea că nu ar fi un excelent narator și un autor extrem de bine documentat.
Nu aș fi crezut niciodată că, pe parcursul acestei lecturi, voi căuta cu multă curiozitate pe internet informații suplimentare despre celebrele Delta Force, NRO, PODS, NASA, despre ciudățeniile pomenite din petrologia, geologia sau biologia marină, ori despre Insula Ellesmere, Arctica și Groapa Marianelor.

De departe cel mai digerabil roman al său, în ceea ce mă privește, chiar dacă nu e (și nici nu cred că își propune a fi) nimic mai mult decât o lectură de vacanță, destul de plină de clișee hollywoodiene.

Superb! My favorite Dan Brown book yet. Nonstop action and very smart. I couldn't put this down!

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The deception has to do with an asteroid with fossils from another planet.

Dan Brown-Great author, an interesting story, but...

What I liked:
-Well written, of course.
-I never got bored, but there was a lot of science. Maybe too much as I feel it did slow the story down.
- I liked the scenes on the glacier.
-Interesting story with lots of explanations.
-Tons of detail. The author obviously did a lot of research, but maybe a little too much.
-There were some surprises, but I kind of felt like I knew where it was going.
-I liked a lot about the book.

What I didn't like:
-Three people were on top of a slice of a glacier as it broke off and fell into the ocean, and they went underwater, then were able to be on top when it bobbed back up. REALLY!
-Shooting a Hellfire missile in Washington DC from a black ops helicopter. NO WAY!

What I HATED:
-Okay, it is fiction, but it so misrepresents Delta Force. The Army's equivalent to Navy Seals, more or less. It is just not true that they would be killing U.S. citizens and a Canadian and his sled dogs blindly, just following orders and never questioning. And how did their mysterious "controller", a civilian, get authorization to use Delta Force? Being ex-military, I am sure this bothered me more than most readers.

But still, definitely recommend it.

I am a loyal fan of Dan Brown and am proud to say that I have read all his books except for the Angels & Demons which I hope to read in the near future. My first read of his work was The Da Vinci Code and from that point there was no stopping of reading his works.

Mr. Brown is an amazing story teller. In his books he combines actual historical incidents, historical institutions, secret societies that were and are in operation, secret government institution, agencies etc., with outstanding plot lines which give the stories an air of genuineness.

My first reaction to Deception Point was that it has no codes! Dan Brown, the master of codes has indeed written a book without codes! Interesting!

The book is woven around NASA’s discovery of a meteorite containing fossils claiming evidence of extraterrestrial life, the effect of this finding on U.S national space policy and future of NASA, the impending U.S presidential election, a daring scientific trickery and an astonishing deception.
NASA discovers a meteorite which contains fossils that produces evidence of extraterrestrial life. On President’s instructions four expert civilian scientists, including the charismatic oceanographer Michael Tolland and White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton sets out to NASA finding site at Milne Ice Shelf in the Arctic to verify the authenticity of the NASA finding. The team unravels however that NASA’s claim is false and a disturbing deception has taken place. But before they can alert the relevant authorities, a mysterious team of assassins follow their trails with a fierce determination to kill. The events take place thereafter unfolds a thrilling story line and concludes with some shocking revelations.

The book is quite informative with all research well done. The story line is thrilling. The female protagonist, Rachel Sexton was well portrayed to make her so believable. She is a woman with a strong mind yet she has her own fears which show that she is real, almost human. Her hatred towards her father given his history of infidelity which indirectly caused her mother’s death is almost natural. The male protagonist too has been given equal strength in the book which I found quite refreshing. I am always amazed by Mr. Brown’s ability to develop the characters so well that you feel they are so real and close to your heart. The book also subtly touches on political maneuverings to hold power/ to get in to power which is all too common anywhere in the world.

However, I felt that although there were a female and a male protagonist, the other characters were also equally strong and because of that the strength attached to the main characters were quite diminished. And also the NASA finding and its deception and the political maneuvering described in the book although was meant as part of the story, I felt the political maneuvering part as a sub plot to the main story line which kind of hindered the smooth flow of the main story. But these minor blemishes did not stop me from enjoying this enthralling tale.

All in all good research, good story line, fair character built and good suspense. Yet another interesting work by Dan Brown.

Τρομερά δουλεμένο μυθιστόρημα. Σχεδόν σε κάθε του σελίδα κρύβονται πληροφορίες που αποτελούν αποτέλεσμα πολύ σκληρής έρευνας, από χίλιους δύο τομείς.
Και η υπόθεση είναι πολύ καλή, με τις ανατροπές να δίνουν και να παίρνουν. Οπότε ξεκάθαρα μου άρεσε στο σύνολό του. Απλώς σε αρκετά σημεία οι "Αμερικανιές" του με γονάτισαν...

Audio book.

Suspense novels are always fun, and Dan Brown is one of the best. That said, this earlier work while fun has some Grand Canyon size holes in it in regard to the big McGuffin among other things.

The bland but brainy and beautiful heroine has been called in by the President to verify data on a surprising discovery. This requires a trip to Antartica where a humongous discovery is made that will save NASA and get the President re-elected. Basically extraterrestrial life is found on a meteor under the Milne Ice Shelf. Implausibilities pile up as civilian scientists and the h are sent out to check on a discrepancy while back at the White House the President gets ready for his big reveal.

Side story where the heroine’s bad dad Senator tries to get a one-up on the White House and NASA.

The whole action occurs in less that 24 hours per usual for a Dan Brown book. Don’t get too attached to anyone as the body count is high and gruesome.

الرواية الوحيدة تقريبا لدان براون اللى مش بتتكلم عن الرموز والاديان ..
رواية علمية الى حد كبير ..
قرأتها زمان ومش فاكر احداثها اوى .. ممكن لما اقراها تانى ان شاء الله اكتب ريفيو عنها.

n  I liked a lot this novel!n


n  NASA AND MY PERSONAL ADMIRATION FOR THAT INSTITUTIONn

n  In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.n

Back then in 2009, I found this novel by chance or fate.

By then, I already knew who Dan Brown was (it's not like I was living in cave, hehehe) but I still have to read his way popular books with the character of Robert Langdon. (While I already watched the two film adaptations done so far)

However, I found interesting to read this book since I noticed that the story involved NASA.

I am a huge fan of NASA, maybe an indirect result of being a fan of Star Trek, I don´t know, maybe even it can be due to being even before fan of Lost in Space and Space: 1999. The main point is that I admire a lot to NASA.

And I am still a great fan of anything related with NASA.

In fact, one of my fondest memories is when finally I was able to visit the Kennedy Space Center. And even bought a jacket of those (green-like with NASA and Space Shuttle patches) the astronauts wear when they aren't using, well... space suits! :P


n  ALIEN LIFE BUT NOT YOUR TYPICAL GREEN MENn

n  There's just no substitute for the truth.n

Here, you will find a very good story about the possibility of finding alien life. But maybe not in the way that you were expecting. But a more realistic scientific approach. I liked a lot the way of how Dan Brown proposed his idea of the finding of alien life, since it can be easily the way as it will happen in real life.


n  ANYTHING THAT NEEDS MONEY FUNDING, EXPECTS RESULTSn

n  Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.n

I think that a proof of how good is this book (at least to me) is that it's a real dark story, full of dangers and deceptions (it's on the title!) related to NASA and since I admire the institution but the story is presented in such smart and plausible way that I could embrace the tale with open mind, understanding the intended bottom line in the book. Since after all, one thing is any organization and its inspiring goals, and other the people which manage it, that after all, they are just human beings.

This book is written in way that if you are fan of Michael Crichton books, you will like this one too. It has a narrative style so engaging that I enjoyed a lot the reading experience.

The writing style of Dan Brown is fantastic and I enjoyed the whole experience of reading the book, even more since in some novels you have a very good main plot but some dull secondary plot and/or scenes that you feel "dragged" when you have to read those chapters, but in my personal experience with the novel, I enjoyed to read the whole book with all its plots.

If you like techno-thrillers, NASA-related novels and/or Dan Browns books, certainly you will enjoy to pick this novel.

Highly recommended.