Digital FortressBy: Dan Brown
Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, and Sci-fi For Ages: 14+ Susan Fletcher is one of the senior cryptographers at the NSA and has never found a code that TRANSLTR, their advanced-technology codebreaker, couldn't break. It usually doesn't tak it longer than a few minutes. But called into work early one Saturday, she is astonished to discover that one of the codes it is trying to crack has taken it twelve hours, and still going. She is even more astonished when her Commanding Officer tells her the source of all the mayhem: an unbreakable code nicknamed Digital Fortress that could be the undoing of all national security and of the NSA itself. With Susan's boyfriend David hunting for the pass key in Spain, Susan must try to crack Digital Fortress before time runs out. This was a very good book, full of strange twists and stories from all sides. My one complaint was that the story leaned heavily on David having difficulties in Spain. If he had found the pass key right away, it wouldn't have been much of a story. It was a good book all the same though. My favourite aspect of Dan Brown's writing is the background context that he provides in it. His books have all the information of a non-fiction book, and all of fiction's excitement. It is like getting a two-in-one package. I would rate this book: A Great Read 4 Stars: * * * * |