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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

23 Reviews

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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Somewhat predictable...

This is my third Dan Brown book. Maybe I've become accustomed to his formula and find this less interesting?! As usual, without spoilers, it's the same ingredients this time: Someone died> handsome guy works on the case> beautiful intelligent woman helps out, more people died> biggie turns ... (continue)

This is my third Dan Brown book. Maybe I've become accustomed to his formula and find this less interesting?! As usual, without spoilers, it's the same ingredients this time: Someone died> handsome guy works on the case> beautiful intelligent woman helps out, more people died> biggie turns out to be bad> broke some code> biggie died> prob resovled> handsome gets with pretty> happy ending!
To be fair, I found this is an enjoyable book, although the plot is weaker compared to his two greatest. That said, his book has some nice touches too - it was cunning how the beginning and end of the book echoes.

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olivia said on Aug 3, 2008 | Add your feedback

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The fact that Brown tells a tale hevily based on concept that under a technical point of view are pure garbage and the novel remains, I think, truly enojable even for a computer geek like me, speaks volume about how good Brown's style and writing really are!

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NickBert said on May 25, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Terrible

This really is a terrible book in every way. Especially irksome is the Hollywood-level understanding of the technical issues described. It's like Dan Brown watched Swordfish for research and thought that was sufficient.

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Dan Singerman said on Oct 13, 2011 | Add your feedback

another hit by Dan Brown! a book you can hardly put down. oh, and, by the way, I did work out the unlocking code BEFORE all them cryptographers... Tankado did like simplicity after all :)
great book!

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alec961 said on Mar 30, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

it's a great book..yeah some people don't like like it's correct but guess what it's fiction people thus it is supposed to entertain and not so much educate on computers(for that try a degree in computer engineering)
I totally loved it,it was a great read every time of the million times i have read ... (continue)

it's a great book..yeah some people don't like like it's correct but guess what it's fiction people thus it is supposed to entertain and not so much educate on computers(for that try a degree in computer engineering)
I totally loved it,it was a great read every time of the million times i have read it.

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Roniralph said on Oct 22, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback