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Deception Point

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A shocking scientific discovery.
A conspiracy of staggering brilliance.
A thriller unlike any you've ever read....

When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory… a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election.

With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable—evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.

But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly task force…a private team of assassins controlled by a mysterious powerbroker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, they possess only one hope, to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all…

480 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2001
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arctic circle, washington d.c., 

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Format
480 pages, Hardcover
Published
August 1, 2005 by Bantam, London
ISBN
9780593055076
ASIN
0593055071
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

    Thomas Sedgewick Sexton

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  • Corky Marlinson

    Corky Marlinson

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  • Zachary Herney

    Zachary Herney

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  • William Pickering

    William Pickering

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dan brown

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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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internallydon3
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March 31,2025
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Finishing my 2021 Reading Goal with such an underrated Dan Brown novel!! This could have been a near-perfect reading experience if it wasn't dragged and bloated by the onset of the final climax. But still, a great and enjoyable sci-fi (almost) thriller with some political accounts.

More words to come... LMAO
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s_ilmido
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March 31,2025
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این کتاب با سه اسم در ایران چاپ شده، نقطه‌ی فریب، تزویر و حقیقت یخی. بر خلاف آثار قبلی که از دن براون خونده بودم اینجا خبری از رابرت لنگدان نبود و خبری هم از کشف رمز و راز باستانی و تاریخی و نمادشناسی نبود. داستان از این قراره که در نزدیکی انتخابات ریاست جمهوری آمریکا بودجه‌ی زیاد و شکست‌های پیاپی ناسا باعث شده اصلی‌ترین رقیب پرزیدنت در موضع بهتری قرار داشته باشه چرا که پرزیدنت حامی سرسخت ناسا و رقیب اون از مخالفان ناساست اما در همین اوضاع ناسا به یک کشف تاریخی میرسه، کشفی در یخ‌های قطب شمال و این شروع ماجرای کتابه. داستان کتاب پرکشش و خوبه، در حد بقیه‌ی کتاب‌های دن براون اطلاعات جانبی نداره و کمی واقعی‌تر نوشته شده. در نهایت بعد از خوندن چندین کتاب از دن براون می‌دونم که در خلال داستان داره چی میگه هر چند من خیلی با تفکراتش موافق نیستم اما نمیتونم هنر قصه‌گوییش رو زیر سوال ببرم.ه
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redsonja84
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March 31,2025
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Really enjoyed this book, was worried I wouldn't understand it but Dan Brown writes in such a way that everyone gets it. Didn't expect the ending, was a real page turner.
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Randomsquiggles
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March 31,2025
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يبهرني دان براون كل مرة بغزارة معلوماته
وثقافته الشاملة في مجالات عديدة

وكل مرة يختار براون موضوعا لرواية من رواياته
تجده قد تجهز جيدا ودرس وبحث
واستطاع عرض هذه المعلومات القيمة بطريقة
لا تسبب مللا ولا تنقص من تشويق روايته
بل بالعكس
تؤدي لإثرائها وتميزها عن أي رواية تشويق أخرى

وهذه المرة يبحر بي براون في عالمي المفضل
فدائما المجال العلمي يثير فضولي ومتعتي ورغبتي الدائمة في المعرفة

ومجال الفضاء يستهويني من أمد بعيد
أحب ناسا واكتشافاتها وطاقمها
ودوما أتذكر العظيم كارل سيجن
الذي كان أول من علمني أن العلم أكثر متعة بكثير
من أي فانتازيا خيالية في كتاب حكايات

لذا استمتعت بكل ما كان يتعلق بالنيازك والحفريات ومركبات الفضاء
وهذا الخيال العلمي المتشبث بالواقع
وهذه القدرة العجيبة لدى براون على التلاعب بنا كقراء مرة بعد مرة

أحببت راتشيل ولم أشعر بالخيبة كما توقعت
لأن روبرت شخصيتي الخيالية الجميلة الطيبة
لن يصحبني معه هذه المرة في محاولته لحل الألغاز

صحيح أن هناك شيء كبير مفقود بغيابه
إلا ان براون نجح في دمج عنصرا الخيال والتشويق
وقدم لنا مرة اخرى رواية محفزة للخيال مليئة بالمعلومات المبهرة

ملحوظة
ألا تشعر أن دان براون احيانا يصنع رواياته وكأنه سيناريو لفيلم سينمائي؟
لأنني في هذه الرواية بالذات لم انفك أشعر بذلك
وبقوة

#هامش

لا
لم اجد ما يساوي متعتي بشيفرة دافنتشي بعد
ولكن عندي أمل
:)
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th_poodle
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March 31,2025
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Deception Point is one of the earlier Dan Brown novels, but I'd never read it before. I am impatient at waiting for the next one to release, so I figured I'd go back to the two I missed... and while this definitely was a bit over my head when it comes to science and space knowledge, it delivered immensely in terms of suspense, thrills, and shock. I was so angry and anxious throughout most of it, all in a positive way, because of the conflicts and constant stop/start to switch storylines.

A senator's daughter is unhappy with her father; he's running for president and trying to muzzle her. She works for an agency that supports the current president. She's unwilling to quit and come work for her father to help his campaign, which is dangerously close to getting enough votes to win the upcoming election. And that's just a side plot! NASA discovers a meteor with interesting data. Someone is murdered in the Arctic wilderness in the opening scene. A young woman is sleeping with a politician and hoping to further her career. How does it all connect? Oh boy... in many ways.

First, the anger... perhaps it's current election times that prompted my reaction, but it definitely hit a nerve. I needed the senator to get his comeuppance. Does he? Ah, perhaps yet not in the way I expected. The short chapters truly made this a book I couldn't put down... 530 pages, I thought I'd read 175 each day and be done over the weekend. Nope... All in one sitting. Yeah, I just kept turning and turning and turning. I admit, I skipped a few paragraphs when it got overly scientific. I won't understand it, and those are the areas I wish Brown skimmed a bit on... but then his negative reviewers would complain, so I totally get it.

His storytelling ability is one of the best, and I am immediately engaged. I loved the Arctic setting, the DC connections, and the questions it makes me ponder. Characters were good, not extremely memorable, but he's always been more of a plot guy with the supervillain being the one you remember. This had a slightly different style, and you can tell he was cutting his teeth on the classic suspense thriller where it's an international drama and constant sub-plot advancement. Definitely worth a read, and I intend to grab Digital Fortress next so I can say I've read them all so far.
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Mahiro-Petto
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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.
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Calisi
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March 31,2025
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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.
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