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Digital fortress

By Dan Brown

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| Paperback | 9780552151696

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A masterful thriller by the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci CodeWhen the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sendsContinue

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Digital Fortress By Dan Brown

Dan Brown tackled codes and decoding before he zoomed into best-selling prominence with The Da Vinci Code. In Digital Fortress, published a few years ago and recently released on audio, Brown takes us into the clandestine depths of the National Secur ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress Dan Brown St. Martin's Press Paperback 384 pages December 2003 One weekend, the NSA’s top cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, gets an urgent call from her boss, Commander Strathmore, to come to work. She arrives to the shocking news that ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

97 Reviews

7 people find this helpful

How comes a book like this has all the quoting in italian wrong? not enough money for a professional translator?
I used to live close to the Vatican, everybody in Rome knows about passetto and many other "surprises" Dan Brown is trying to sell...american friends, visit the city and buy a good ... (continue)

How comes a book like this has all the quoting in italian wrong? not enough money for a professional translator?
I used to live close to the Vatican, everybody in Rome knows about passetto and many other "surprises" Dan Brown is trying to sell...american friends, visit the city and buy a good giude, but please forget about this book!

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Littlelakes said on Jun 21, 2009 about the Others edition | 3 feedbacks

3 people find this helpful

Fun for fun

If you love Dan Brown, this book is a good one.
Otherwise, at the end, all remaining things are the unlikely story and the dull prose style.

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Matteo De Simone said on Feb 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

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This is better than The Da Vinci Code and a wonderful read.

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KayParfait said on May 19, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | 1 feedback

fantastic book. even more fascinating than the da vinci code.
descent paced. enough amount of detailing. and breath stopping. a lot hard to put down midway.

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Akashmanvar said on Apr 14, 2012 | Add your feedback

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It has been a long time since I read the Da vinci Code.
I usually make some time passing between the reading of thwo best sellers of the same author in order to not get my judgement being influenced by the former book.
In this case, this was useless.
I mean, the trademark that made the Da vinci code ... (continue)

It has been a long time since I read the Da vinci Code.
I usually make some time passing between the reading of thwo best sellers of the same author in order to not get my judgement being influenced by the former book.
In this case, this was useless.
I mean, the trademark that made the Da vinci code so stirring was its allegedly continous connection with the storic reality that made you think it was something that could perfectly happen.
In Angel and Demons, this feature seems to be quite neglected: an antimatter bomb under the Vatican? Come on!
Beside this, all the story, all the dialogues, all the scenaries, look far more a plot for an american movie than a book.
Nice thriller, though.

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Gatto Nero said on Apr 7, 2012 | Add your feedback

Brown just doesn't do it for me anymore...

A few years ago I loved Dan Brown but now... I wonder what appealed to me in his books. I've re-read Deception Point and now Digital Fortress in the last few months and I'm shocked at how bad I think his writing style is. Deception Point was cringe-worthy at the best of times. Digital Fortress is sl ... (continue)

A few years ago I loved Dan Brown but now... I wonder what appealed to me in his books. I've re-read Deception Point and now Digital Fortress in the last few months and I'm shocked at how bad I think his writing style is. Deception Point was cringe-worthy at the best of times. Digital Fortress is slightly better but still at times so cliche and Hollywood or something it's embarrassing.
At least Digital Fortress has a better plotline but as with all Brown's books it's easily recognizable and you know who the bad guy is going to turn out to be by the end of the third or fourth chapter.
I'm kind of in two minds about whether or not to re-read Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code beacuse I really have them in my head as amazing stories so I don't want to ruin that. I'll think about it!!

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Lauraolsthoorn said on Mar 7, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback