Digital Fortress (6)

Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown
read 4/5/08

This is an earlier work by the author of DaVinci Code. Not one of his stronger works. It has the deep mystery like the other books, but it is written like a made for TV movie, constantly cutting back and forth between characters to present un-natuarl suspense.
The premise of the book is that 'Digital Fortress' is an un-breakable encryption process. The out-going head of the NSA is determined to break this, get the glory and the girl. In the end his own ambition is his undoing. The book is clever on how the plot is set up.. but the idea.. to change the code and re-release it un-noticed... I don't think that would work.. the MD5sums would be different.. Yes I know this is fiction, but the basic premise of the story should at least be believable.
Anyway.. the book was just OK.. He is a good writer, but you can skip this book.