✍️ Written by: Dan Brown
🏷️ Genre: Thriller
🗓️ Published: 31 May 2011
📄 Pages: 396
🧐 My rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2 stars)
When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage - not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence.
Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves...
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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