"Deception Point" is one of my favorite books from Dan Brown. And although I have to admit that for my taste Dan Brown novels are sometimes a bit too archetypal and with a Hollywood blockbuster style, in general, I think it's a book that achieves its goal: to entertain the reader.
The rhythm of the novel is frantic and the plot of the essential "conspiracy" of Dan Brown's books for me is one of the best and most interesting. I have always felt a great attraction to thrillers in which politics and science are mixed intelligently. I recommend this book for all fans novels full of suspense, intrigues, betrayal and a good dose of science.

Spanish version:
"La Conspiración" es uno de mis novelas favoritas de Dan Brown. Y aunque tengo que admitir que las novelas de Brown pecan para mi gusto de personajes demasiado arquetípicos y tramas muy hollywoodienses, en general creo que es un libro que consigue su objetivo: hacer pasar un rato buen rato entretenido al lector.
El ritmo de la novela es frenético y la trama de la imprescindible “conspiración” de los libros de Dan Brown es para mí de las mejores y más interesantes. Siempre he sentido una gran atracción por las thrillers en los que política y la ciencia se mezclan de forma inteligente. Recomiendo este libro para todos los fans de los thrillers novelísticos llenos de suspense, intriga, traiciones y una buena dosis de ciencia.

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.

3 and half stars!
I enjoyed this book, it was easy to get into. While I didn’t like some of the plot points this made for an interesting read.

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!

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.

Corporation + Political game
The facts about the NASA and politics got me deep into this book.
A informative read at the end of the year:)

The good 'ole days of Dan Brown, that's for sure. This is by far his best book in my opinion. The book is readable and lacks the self-indulgence seen with so many other authors and so many other Dan Brown books!

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.

This was a good book. But it's too long in my opinion. I found myself bored or lost at times.
But I think if you are interested in mystery/thriller novels you should try this book.

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.

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.

دائما مايبهرنا براون برواياته... قصة، حبكة، معلومات، اثارة، وجمال
ذكرتني هذه المرة بالمسلسل الامريكي
prison break
حين تلتف الاحداث فجأة على ابطال الرواية
فيتحول الصديق الى عدو والعدو الى طرف آخر....
ولن ادخل في التفاصيل كي ﻻ افسد متعة غيري فيها..
بعيدا هذه المرة عن فك الرموز وعن شخصية روبرت ﻻنغدون الخﻻبة
كان لدي فضول كبير، كيف سيدخل براون الاثارة -المعتادة في رواياته- هذه المرة..
حقيقة لم اتخيل ابدا مفاجآته... والا لم تكن كذلك...
واقولها مرة ثانية ان اكبر تحدي من الكاتب لنفسه اوﻻ وللقراء ثانيا
ان يجعل كل احداث الرواية الضخمة تدور في يوم واحد فقط... هذه القدرة الهائلة على بناء ادق التفاصيل في كل دقيقة تمر تجعلك تتخيل كل مشهد بتفاصيله... ولم يغب عني ذلك الاحساس بأني سأشاهدها فلم سينمائي يوما ما...

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