Deception Point
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The plot is about a new NASA satellite detecting a rare object buried deep
beneath the Arctic ice. The finding, a 300 years old meteorite with fossil, is made public during the presidential elections and this is a devastating blow for Senator Sexton who has been criticising NASA for errors throughout the campaign. The president sends Rachel Sexton ,a White House intelligence analyst and daughter to senator Sexton , along with four other ordinary scientists and a team of highly ranked NASA scientists up to the Arctic to verify and confirm the authenticity of the finding.
Soon they uncover evidence of a fraud after a scientist is found dead under strange circumstances but before Rachel can get in contact with the president she realizes along with the others that this kind of knowledge will put them in a very dangerous situation and also the president in a very difficult position if he announces the news to the world.
Fleeing for their lives throughout the Arctic environment they will find out, what would be devastating news for the president and NASA and plunge the world into controversy, the evidences pointing at the biggest scientific fraud ever. Their only hope for survival now is to find out who is behind this plot and why; for what purpose, and fight for their lives against those who wants to see them dead.
The findings in this book could easily be compared to real findings, throughout history we have been looking at finding proof for existence of life out in the universe and we have found several meteorites throughout times. Though they are not as significant as the discovery in the book where they are found during presidential elections and with fossils on it, but today when people are looking in space and saying our future lies there; reading the book has made everything just more interesting and exciting. “If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises answer to some of our oldest questions, it poses still others even more fundamental”
The language of this book can sometimes be difficult when the author uses scientific or high tech terms, or certain words that you are not usually used to, but otherwise this book is easily read by people in my own age. Though this could be difficult for non English speakers there should not be any problems, and the language shouldnt be very easy because the aims of this book is for it to be a quality book. The author uses good and comprehensible language to describe the setting and different situations, so you as a reader can imagine how it looks like and how it is. Also the language varies a lot from situation to situation which make everything much more realistic.
The structure of the book is good and easy, the author has divided chapters into different scenarios, so when in the book the story switches from one person/place to another, the author makes a new chapter, even though they sometimes are short this is an easy way to make it comprehensible and to make it less confusing for the reader.
Even though there are no images in the book, imagination is a way to picture the situations, characters and places. This is accomplished with ease in this book as Dan Brown describes everything in detail, so it would be very difficult not to have any images inside your imagination place and no pictures are really needed in a book like this, in the thriller genre pictures shouldnt be included because that should be left for your imagination.