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Digital Fortress by
Dan
Brown The government's greatest secret is that it knows all of
yours.
From and electrifying new voice in suspense fiction comes Digital
Fortress, a lightning-paced thriller that U.S. intelligence analysts are
calling "utterly plausible."
Chillingly current and filled with more intelligence secrets than Tom
Clancy, Digital Fortress transports the reader deep within the most
powerful intelligence organization on earth -- the National Security Agency
(NSA), an ultra-secret, multibillion-dollar agency, which (until now) less
than 3 percent of Americans knew existed.
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious
code it cannot break, the agency calls in 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 bit to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an
impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold
war balance of power. Forever. |