is a white, good looking very intelligent man with a broken heart from loves past. The main female character is white, attractive, very intelligent and always knows the right moments to be vulnerable or strong. The sub-characters are all short, fat, ethnic, homosexual, eccentric, and disposable. Just like the other books, this book took place in a 24 hour period. A death, a discovery, national security, religious zealots, several unbelievable escapes from death, a predictable villian, a romantic tryst, and the nation/church/history/chalice saved again! If only my WHOLE life were as exciting as one of the days of a Dan Brown book. Having said all that, his books are very quick and fun to read if you don't take it all too seriously. And in the end you feel like an expert in art history, the Catholic church, national security, or in the case of Deception Point an expert in NASA, marine geology, and the swimming patterns of hammerhead sharks. As my friend Susie Egbert said, his books are much more intelligent and must require enormous amounts of research on his part. Even though I only gave it 2 stars, I do enjoy reading books by Dan Brown...they are what they are...and I look forward to his new one that should be coming out this year. Right? (less) Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded