Deception Point

From the ultra secret National Reconnaissance Office to
the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle this is
pulse-pounding fiction at its best. 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 U.S. 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.