From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci
Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno--now a major film directed by
Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones--comes a
lightning-fast thriller about an astonishing NASA discovery that
uncovers a vicious conspiracy leading all the way to the White House.
When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object
buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a
much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for US
space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval
Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence
analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity
of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic
academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of
scientific trickery--a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world
into controversy.
But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are
attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power
broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their
lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for
survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth,
they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
In his most thrilling novel to date, bestselling author Dan Brown
transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office
to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the
hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully
intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed
thriller Angels & Demons, Brown has crafted another novel in which
nothing is as it seems--and behind every corner is a stunning surprise.
Deception Point is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.
