Book Review Deception Point Dan Brown

chillibreeze writer — Pramila Saravanan

When a desperate U.S. President seeks the help of a smart and beautiful intelligence analyst, a handsome oceanographer who also anchors a popular television series, a world famous astrophysicist, a paleontologist, and a glaciologist, it can only mean serious business. Include a literally groundbreaking discovery by NASA and a shrewd senator who takes an anti NASA stance in his campaign for the presidential candidature and you have a plot that thickens as you turn every page. Throw in an armed secret force whose only business is “elimination” and you have a racy thriller. Top it off with a bit of idealism, romance, and family—you have an intense drama. And when Dan Brown serves all these in a dish with the hint of a shocking deception, you have a book that can be made into a movie, any day.

For those of us who think that space science is magic and NASA is heaven, there is a lot of disillusionment in store, as Dan Brown portrays the woes of running a government agency as against the more lucrative privatization option. This disillusionment takes the lights out of a magic conjured by our “astronomical” dreams. The deception also manages to dampen the satisfaction of having read a good book.

As against his penchant for art, architecture, history, and religion as revealed in his earlier books (Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code), Dan Brown embarks on a crusade where he pitches geography and science, loaded with interesting facts, against cutthroat power politics. All in all a good read, albeit a long drawn out end.

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An avid reader, writer, and editor Pramila Krishnan actively visualizes everything she reads and writes and is an ardent admirer of Nature.

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