Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress is a thriller and the first novel written by Dan Brown. This story, written by the same author as The DaVinci Code, takes place inside the National Security Agency (NSA). A former disgruntled employee writes new encryption software for emails that he claims that will make a super secret multi-billion dollar NSA computer that can decrypt any email within a matter of minutes obsolete. The catch isin order for anybody to use this software, they need a pass code that this guy put up for auction to the highest bidder and also stated that if anything happened to him, he sent a copy to another person who in turn would publicly publish the pass key so everybody would have access to it. The NSA’s computer has been trying to decrypt this software fore several hours to no avail and it turns out that the guy that wrote it was just murdered in Spain. The NSA’s head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, is called in to try to do what she can from there in the NSA. In the meanwhile, her fiancée is sent to Spain to bring back all of the dead guy’s belonging’s in hopes that they find something in them with the pass code. Will the bee able to find it in time?

The reader has to keep in mind that this is a work of fiction. Just as with any of the other government and intelligence gathering agencies, the NSA does have federal regulations and budgets that they have to abide by. There is plenty of action in this book and some interesting twists. It is comprised of several short chapters, many of which are from one to four pages long which seems to slow it down.

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it in various formats from the various sites:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fortress-Thriller-Dan-Brown-ebook/dp/B003JH8LPW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1519922508&sr=1-1&keywords=digital+fortress

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/digital-fortress-dan-brown/1116702349?ean=9780312944926#/

World of Sleuths Rating: ****

(Four out of five stars)