Digital Fortress
Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Thriller
Released: 01 February 1998
Rating:
When the NSA's supposedly unbreakable code-cracking supercomputer encounters an algorithm it cannot defeat, chief cryptographer Susan Fletcher is called in. What she discovers puts the agency — and the country — at risk of catastrophic exposure. A fast-paced techno-thriller set in the world of codebreaking and intelligence agencies, with a race-against-the-clock structure.
This book started off so well, but as it progressed it was chock full of cliché crap.
For example, there's 3 women in the story - the main character, Susan, who is "beautiful and brilliant", Midge who is an older lady who is also very attractive and a massive flirt who seemingly spends her time sleeping with her colleagues in the NSA. Finally there's the -- you guessed it -- beautiful prostitute who's name I forgot as she's in the story earlier on.
There were many mentions of the beauty of the women in the book, and even more mentions of sex and sexual fantasies that just added nothing to the story for me.
Toward the end the technical details were laughable too. I won't give anything away in case any of you decide to read this book, but the details of the technical "stuff" in use was laughable.
First and last Dan Brown book, I think.
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