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The story revolves around the NSA's codebreaking supercomputer called TRANSLTR encounters a code that it couldn't break. It deals with the theme of government surveillance and the privacy people's electronically stored and transmitted information. Even though many people point out that this early work Brown is riddled with factual errors about the technical side of this book, what is noteworthy about it is the question it poses: Which is more important, people's privacy or the risks of national security? Adult readers who are well versed in cryptography are quick to bash the book but I must say that it is a good read for the younger audiene (which I was part of when I first read this book) due to its ticking time bomb way of telling the story. In comparison to Brown's other works, I would say that it has a similar way of beconing readers with the promise of knowing something of utter importance, a secret, by the end of the book. It does not deliver as good as DaVinci code or Angels and Demons but it was still an entertaining read.
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sci-fi
techno-thriller
Dan Brown
St Martin's Press
UK
1998
510pp
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