Deception Point

Title : Deception Point
Author: Dan Brown

This is yet another book by this author and in a way, this book is more relaxing than the two previous books I've reviewed but nonetheless, still entertaining.

Yes, this book starts with the assasination of someone but no, it doesn't involve Robert Langdon being awaken from his sleep by a phone call. In fact, the story revolves more around a woman, not a man this time. Intelligence analyst, Rachel Sexton is the daughter of a prominant senator who's in the running for the president of the United States election. However, her relationship with her father is anything but close.. hostile in fact. She partly blames her ambitious father on her mother's heartbreak that lead to her death though they still maintain a courtious relationship.

While having breakfast with her father, she is summoned by the President to verify a new finding by NASA. Due to the cirucumstances, where the President is on the brink of losing because of his constant support for NASA which have more than failed the American people during recent times, Rachel's boss suspects that the President is using her as a pawn against her father, not that she minds anyway. Her father has been using the NASA issue as his point to topple the current President with his slogan "Less spending bla.. blaa" Gosh! I forgot the slogan!!! I can't believe I forgot it.. well, I'll update the slogan once I remember, k.

The discovery apparently involves the extraterrestrial issue debated long ago by experts but if you want to know about it, go grab the book la hehe.. Anyway, as an analyst, Rachel was supposed to verify the authenticy of the finding and help to broadcast it throughtout the nation.. theirs la, bukan sini! However, amidst the excitement, a small flaw surfaced that lead to a bigger complication that threatened to put NASA and the President in jeapordy.

Then, as stories go, the people responsible for whatever happened wrong realized that these group of experts have detected the deceit behind the discovery, thus prompting them to destroy the whole group and here it all begins.

Compared to Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, some people might find this book quite tame but it was a great relief from those two books as you don't have your mind trying to solve anything before the characters do. You just go with the flow with this book though there ARE part which you want to scream or something hehe..

One thing about this book is, though it still with the theme of 'being deceived by someone you trust', this time Dan Brown made a great job of hiding who the person is. In Angels and Demons, towards the end of the book, I somehow realized who was deceiving who, as like in The Da Vinci Code where you could already guess earlier. However, this time, I was proved wrong. Glad about that though as I don't like books to be so predictable.

The end was expected, I mean, good guys always win though they might lose something on the way! Hey, ask Harry Potter, it always happens that way to him.. nearly always la! But still, I quite enjoyed the whole reading experience.

So, people out there, if you want a book to help you rewind, but you're not in favour of the mushy² type, this could be one of your choice.

Till next time.. cheerio!