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Wednesday March 02, 2005

Dan Brown Digital Fortress

As my wife kindly bought me the other three Dan Brown books in a three for two offer I am now reading them. I wrote about his famous book The De Vinci Code before . Digital fortress is not a bad read, as one reviewer wrote it is a bit like a highly techno charged Clancy book. The story is based around a secret code breaking machine and an ex employee who worked on it who now threatens to release his own freeware ultimate encrytion package, that will make this system useless. Susan Fletcher is the head crpytographer who finds her boyfriend being sent to Spain James Bond fashion to find a key to unlock the "Digital Fortress" the new encrpytion software. Strangely enough he is a teacher and his sudden ability to pull off a series of James Bond stunts makes me believe he was in the wrong job. Better not give much more of the book away else I will spoil it for you but the ending is very tortuous and I was very pleased when it finally came to an end.

So perhaps I am being unkind, it is a book to read on a long plane journey or on holiday. I read to learn and to escape from the busy lives we all lead and this book was interesting enough for that to work.

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