![]() ![]() ![]() The short chapters (128 of them) make it a quick read, the action skips back and forward between Washington and Sevilla. The plot like other Dan Brown books has holes and the cryptography details probably wouldn’t hold up to scrutiny but it is a compulsive read. A renegade programmer Tankado, has created a supposedly impregnable code that he intends to publish, a code that would render the $2 billion dollar super computer obsolete and leave the NSA unable to eavesdrop, on who they will. The book starts with their proposed weekend romantic break, being interrupted by NSA Commander Strathmore, who fears that ,the NSA’s super computer TRANSLATR, that can eavesdrop on the world’s terrorists, drug dealers and private citizens is under threat. Her boyfriend, David Becker, who happens to share the author’s initials is also brilliant and beautiful. Susan Fletcher is one of the NSA’s top cryptographers and beautiful to wit. The main protagonists are a little unbelievable. ![]()
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