Dan Brown - Digital Fortress

Pros: sophisticated fear, hard-edged kills, and a great sense of urgency in the plot.
Cons: perhaps a little too graphic in spots.

C W H C S I W A M H O I E M T H R A A N S E A A Y M C N T B D L C N E D C L O I L H O R O E I O N G A T & T Y K K G I N / ^ C O E E L V C S A O U T X Y E E F T M A thriller you might enjoy, ...

Pros: Interesting plot
Cons: Some slow spots. Could have been more suspenseful. Characters not developed enough.

After really enjoying Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, I was interested in checking out the few other books that Dan Brown had written. I picked up Digital ...

Pros: fast moving, good characters, good twists
Cons: jarring changes in which part of the story you're following

The NSA has a problem. A former employee, Ensei Tankado, has created a code called Digital Fortress that is unbreakable by the agency's two billion dollar supercomputer, TRANSLTR. No code had lasted more than six hours inside the beast, ...

Pros: A well - paced, reasonably well - written affair.
Cons: Implausible, occasionally repetitive, poor ending.

Before T he Da Vinci Code became the book which everyone in the world had read at least twice, and Dan Brown was a world-famous author, there was this. Digital Fortress was his first novel, although having jumped about ...

Pros: Exciting, action-packed, and thought-provoking
Cons: Takes a while for the psychological thriller part to really kick in

A hot topic in the U.S., especially in the past few years, has been whether being protected by the government is worth giving up some of your freedoms. That question is raised in thrilling fashion thanks to Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. The ...

Pros: timely social issues: terrorism vs. right to privacy, the government's right to read your email
Cons: enough action to challenge James Bond, unnecessary romance

Dan Brown can tell a good story, as evidenced by his wildly popular "Da Vinci Code." This little mass market paperback, however, is something altogether different. Here Brown wraps his brainy plot around developments at the National Security Agency ...

Pros: Fast paced, interesting at times
Cons: Terrible characters, generic ending

In 1998, several years before the DaVinci Code controversy, Dan Brown published Digital Fortress. This was his first book, and so as I began reading it, I was not expecting perfection. I was however, expecting an entertaining story, which to some ...

Pros: Good writing and good pace.
Cons: Repeated plot, not too much intrigue

Introduction Dan Brown is the flavour of today. The success of Da Vinci Code has renewed interested in Dan Brown's other creations. Although, Da Vinci Code happens to be his most successful book, I liked Angels and Demons to be slightly better ...

Pros: Great techno-thriller. The story has a lot of twists.
Cons: Needs a lot of time reading it.

Reading fiction books are quite entertaining especially if you have enough patience reading a thick book. When a lot of novels with a good plot reach the market, it is not a bad thing to read a novel that stimulates our minds and capture our imagination. ...

Pros: thinking, patterns, dynamics, fun
Cons: none

Although "The Fort" (Fort Meade, home of the legendary and most secretive National Security Agency) seems to be at the thematic center of this book, the author, a member of the high-IQ Mensa society, is at least as much interested in humanizing...

Pros: You get a lot of information about NSA and encryption
Cons: The story drags at a certain places

Digital Fortress is a good book. Though, not as good The Da Vinci Code nor Angels and Demons. The story revolves around the NSA( National Security Agency). The finest decrypting machine in the NSA has not yet decoded a certain message. The NSA fears that ...