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Book Description:
Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp research and storytelling skills on the most powerful intelligence organization on earth - the National Security Agency (NSA), an ultra-secret, multibillion-dollar agency many times more powerful than the CIA.
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and 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 ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan 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.
From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival - a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius ... an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and 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 ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan 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.
From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival - a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius ... an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.
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Shaun (Most Dan Brown fans will probably enjoy this book, as will those that like techno-thrillers. However, as a few other reviewers have noted, if you are computer-savvy (or in the field of computer security as I am), this book will make you cringe. Dan Brown obviously has very little understanding of the technical realities of computer systems and security. It was amusing at first, but just got too annoying.
Again, most fans will probably be satisfied with the book. Computer geeks are advised not to waste time reading it. It will just tick you off.
Warning: if you know how physical and computer security works, your ability to suspend disbelief will be sorely tested. In particular, the idea of where the main computer core's power supply should be.
Still a fun read, and for me, funny.
A book that you won't put down until you have finished reading!
Whent he National Security Agency runs into an unbreakable code everything starts to go bad. The head cryptographer, Susan, and her fiancee' David are in for a wild ride and there is a time limit on both of them. Can she decode the final encryption of Enai Tankado in time to save the NSA's super computer? Very good read and it definitely sparks alot of questions about what type of security our government really does have.
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