DIGITAL FORTRESS When a desperate U.S. President seeks the help of a smart and beautiful intelligence analyst‚ a handsome oceanographer who also anchors a popular television series‚ a world famous astrophysicist‚ a paleontologist‚ and a glaciologist‚ it can only mean serious business. Include a literally groundbreaking discovery by NASA and a shrewd senator who takes an anti NASA stance in his campaign for the presidential candidature and you have a plot that thickens as you turn every page. Throw
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Prologue: Ensei Tankado is dying in the Andalusian sun in Seville‚ Spain. Oddly‚ he is showing his left hand to the people trying to help him. To Tankado’s frustration‚ no one understands and the last image Tankado sees is the light reflecting off of the ring on his finger. Chapter 1: The chapter starts off with David Becker proposing to Susan Fletcher while they were in the Smoky Mountains. Turns out‚ this vision was apart of Susan’s dreams as the phone rings. On the other side of the line is
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conspiracy. Also in this passage we learn more about the program Digital Fortress‚ the unbreakable algorithm. "Strathmore’s vision had been bold - a world encryption standard with a back door for the NSA" Chapter 96 (page 412) This passage shows the government conspiracy aspect of the book. Strathmore is the head of cryptography section of the NSA‚ and he had planned to put a back door in the computer program Digital Fortress. His back door key would allow him access to decrypt anything that
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Book review Digital Fortress is a fairly well-written and entertaining novel. The main storyline is based upon a hush-hush operation within the NSA to obtain and or destroy the only existing copies of a pass-key that‚ if made public‚ could enable the use of an encryption program that would create coded messages that would be entirely unbreakable thereby rendering the NSA obsolete and allowing undecipherable communications between terrorist organizations and crime rings throughout the world. The
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thriller by America’s renowned author Dan Brown. Dan Brown was born in a family of three‚ brought up by a great mathematics teacher and a church organist‚ his parents in New Hampshire‚ USA. Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination for science and religion which paved way for the art of writing as these themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Philips Exeter academy. Dan Brown is the of “The Da Vinci code‚” one of
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Dan Brown Who is Dan Brown? Dan Brown is an extensive writer whose work has inspired many writers and directors. For instance‚ the ever popular book The Da Vinci Code was converted into a movie. For his hard work‚ he won numerous works such as the “The New York Times Best Seller”. All five of his books have been translated into forty languages around the world. Most of his readers deeply appreciate his fascinating ideas‚ his mysterious series of events‚ and how his novels are action packed.
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Date: 13th April‚ 2013 Title: Angels and Demons Author: Dan Brown Source: Novel by same title The novel‚ "Angels And Demons" by Dan Brown‚ is a story of when a world renowned scientist was found butally murdered and a proffessor named Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol scared into his chest. His conclusion is it was the work of the Illuminati‚ a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years and is now reborn to continue their fight againgst their
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Dan Brown Deception Point Deception Point by Dan Brown Acknowledgments With warm thanks to Jason Kaufman for his superb guidance and insightful editorial skills; Blythe Brown for her tireless research and creative input; my good friend Jake Elwell at Wieser & Wieser; the National Security Archive; the NASA Public Affairs Office; Stan Planton‚ who continues to be a source for information on all things; the National Security Agency; glaciologist Martin O. Jeffries; and the superb minds of Brett
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What a legacy left by Martin Luther in writing his powerful hymn‚ “A Mighty Fortress‚” that has stretched across time and linguistic barriers‚ ministering to listeners and readers from numerous generations‚ past to present. I understood Martin Luther to be a priest‚ professor‚ monk and reformer‚ but remained unfamiliar with his work as a composer until today. I have memories of singing this hymn with my schoolmates in Catholic mass as a young girl‚ however I have not previously been educated in the
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ones mental ability‚ it allows a person to fully utilize him or herself. This hope is both a drive and inspiration. It works for positive and negative causes‚ but it does work to strengthen and empower a person. In the novel‚ Angels and Demons‚ by Dan Brown‚ several characters are empowered by hope; a hope that is the inspiration that causes people to be all that they can be. Robert Langdon‚ a scholar of religious symbology and professor at Harvard University‚ made a life changing decision based on
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