Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
Dan Brown is an American writer born in 1964. Book Digital Fortress was published in 1998 as his first novel. Soon after that he wrote books Angels and Demons (2000) and The Deception Point (2001). Their succes wasn't big but in 2003 came change with The Da Vinci Code, which in short time became bestseller and also appeared a 2010 list of 101 best books ever written. Except Digital Fortress I've read books Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and I'm currently reading The Lost Symbol.
Digital Fortress
Ensei Tankado invented new unbreakable algorythm (called Digital Fortress) which can change computer world. No chance to read terorist's e-mails! How terrible! Especially for National Security Agency (one of the super-secret organisations in USA, everybody writes about them, they surely exist but nobody know anything about the real ones), which does it usually. What could be worse? Maybe that Tankado is found death in Seville (Spain) and there is no chance that his accomplice called North Dakota (who has task to publish the algorythm in case of Tankado's death) would believe in NSA innocence from murder. So cool guys from NSA send one cool guy (fiancé of really hot and clever female employee) to Spain to find password to Digital Forstress and meanwhile the clever employee Susan Fletcher tries to find NDakota by googling him with really cool program. And because it is Dan Brown's book, you will find out, that the story is in fact about something completely different and that not all guys are cool.
My opinion? Yeh, I liked the book. You can see there things typical for Dan Brown, similar to The Code and Angels. Unfortunately, except the similar things there is not much more. I mean Angels have suprising end also, scavenger hunt also but really great atmosphere on top of that. Simply, The Code and Angels are better. For me. But anyway, yeh, I liked the book. :)
Book cover from www.borders.com.au (surely I'd be able to find it on milion other pages)
Photo of and informations about Dan Brown are from wikipedia.org.
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