Susan starts working on breaking the code and discovers that it was written by a man called Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee turned protestor who is against the digital spying by NSA in personnel lives of citizens without their knowledge. The chain of events starts with NSA’s head, Commander Trevor Strathmore, calling Susan to office and informing her about a new and complex computing system defence program called “Digital Fortress” that the TRANSLTR has encountered, and strangely is not able to break through. The NSA houses one of the most efficient super-computer of the world called the T RANSLTR, which can practically crack any code and is the backbone of NSA’s electronic data collection and analysis network.

Susan Fletcher, intelligent and attractive, works as a head cryptographer at the National Security Agnecy, USA. Though the book primarily belongs to the techno-thriller genre, Dan Brown’s love for puzzles and anagrams, which he later utilised as a base to build his most successful stories, also makes its first appearance here. He made his debut in the field of fictional thriller novels with “ Digital Fortress“, published in 1998.

Especially when the point of the book isn't going to always check off a bunch of boxes (Prose, development, strong lead.Dan Brown rose to fame in 2003 with his controversial international best-seller “ The Da Vinci Code”. I'm not defending him as a good author, I'm just trying to figure out what makes an author good. (If I remember correctly, the protagonist of most of all Dan Browns books reoccurs, so his growth wouldn't be seen in just one book, nor is it the focus of that one book)Īnd as a quick disclaimer, I read the books a long time ago, and don't remember them word for word. Not every book will have beautiful prose and amazing character development. I think the book served as an excellent suspense novel. What is it about Dan Brown that people dislike so much? I'm a huge movie critic and only can name a few which I think are extremely well done.Īs far as books, I'm not as big a reader, but I did read Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code and I really enjoyed them. To start, I'm actually trying to make this a learning experience for me.

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