Deception Point
by Dan Brown · first published 2001
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Deception Point is a 2001 mystery-thriller novel by American author Dan Brown. It is Brown's third novel. It was published by Simon & Schuster. The novel follows White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton's involvement in corroborating NASA's discovery of a meteorite that supposedly contains proof of extraterrestrial life, resembling the ALH84001 case. The discovery comes at a time close to the United States presidential election in which her father is running. The discovery will aid the campaign of her employer, the incumbent president of the United States, Zachary Herney, but put her
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Could be good. I really enjoyed 'Deception Point' by Dan Brown and it seems this could be something of the sort...
on “Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site” ↗1984 (George Orwell) The Four Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss) Getting Things Done (David Allen) Deception Point (Dan Brown)
on “Ask YC: favorite books” ↗Dan Brown is the author I love to hate. His Digital Fortress and Deception Point are hilariously bad. But don't bother spending any money on them; just borrow them from the library.
on “Why I won’t touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole.” ↗If you read more than two Dan Brown books, honestly it's hard to not see this structure. I read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, which were OK, but then reading Deception Point I could guess all the plot twists several chapters in advance. He's just very formulaic.
on “How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools” ↗Brown wrote one book about the space business, “Deception Point”. IIRC, the plot was that a couple of aerospace companies had faked a meteorite with fossils in it, in order to leverage a huge increase in the space industry from Congress. He made the mistake of naming…
on “The World According to Dan Brown” ↗