Book Review: Deception Point by Dan Brown

Deception Point by Dan Brown

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Author Dan Brown has written a truely fascinating book which demonstrates the lengths to which persons in the highest levels of government power will go in order to be elected, stay in power, and collude across party lines at times to prevent scandalous situations from being made public. The scene, an arctic glacial study base which has come across some amazing fossil evidence for other life-forms in the universe. In order to make sure that there is no question about the veracity of the find, President Herney recruits a number of independent specialists to visit the site, review all the documentation, and scientific evidence so that when the time for release of this world-shaking news comes about, it will be both believable and authenticated to a degree that makes it beyond question. Rachael Sexton, daughter of one the President’s fiercest opponents in an upcoming election. His attacks on funding for NASA and scientific research have so undermined the President’s administration, that reelection may be impossible for Mr. Harney. Rachael has been picked as his special envoy to verify the accuracy of the arctic discovery because she will lend credence to any verification for two reasons: first, she is the star reviewer of top secret evidence based research done by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) which oversees NASA and scientific research, while also being seen as a person who would never undermine her own father’s political goal of defeating the administration, unless there was overwhelmingly strong evidence that NASA’s claim for finding interstellar fossils is absolutely bomb proof.
I was totally engrossed in all of the actual scientific research that author Dan Brown had done in order to put together this amazing and thrilling tale of investigation, death, infighting and power struggles between separate branches of our government. In this book, thrilling science fiction leads us through many of the truths behind the wheels of our own government and the lust for power that pervades, and often perverts, our nations highest offices. A great read from beginning to end.



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