Deception Point
By: Dan Brown
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2003 09
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780743490306
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Americans -- Arctic regions -- Fiction; Presidents -- Election -- Fiction; Conspiracies -- Fiction; Scientists -- Fiction; Meteors -- Fiction; Political fiction; Suspense fiction; Arctic regions -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.

But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
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Notes: US/CAN