Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about NASA funding for ever. Reluctantly agreeing to view the find Rachel is whisked off to the North Pole. What she finds once she gets there takes her breath away. However, she quickly learns that nothing is what it seems, and, with two civilian scientists, is soon fleeing for her life.

For me, this review doesn't need to be too long winded; although whether that happens as I begin to write may be a different story however. Dan Brown never fails to create a page turner with his pacey action thrillers but Deception Point didn't really hit the mark for me I'm afraid in other categories.

The whole book for me seemed a little too one dimensional despite the many view points that the book was written from - nothing ever really happened. Well, a lot happened, but it wasn't exciting like his other books. It all seemed to be a bit too obvious and put together, (I'm not sure if I'm wording this correctly) like you had the obvious baddies and goodies and it wasn't too hard to fit the puzzle pieces together to figure out what was going on.

The story seemed to follow a strict structure of characters get into an "impossible" situation and miraculously survive, repeat. I know the story wouldn't be any good if the main characters just died at the first obstacle, but some of the situations that they got out of were ridiculously unbelievable and even when you think that there's absolutely no way out they find some even more ridiculous way of escaping. It was a book worthy of a lot of eye rolling to say the least.

Also. Unnecessary romance. WHAT?!

Don't get me wrong, the writing was the usual Dan Brown; interesting in it's factual research and pacey. However, the writing alone cannot hold the rest of the unfortunately disappointing read.