DIGITAL FORTRESS

Behold! NSA’s TRANSLTR has encountered a code it can’t break! 13 hours and so on! The secret machine is breaking down! The disaster to their community and work is being run by a machine that can break foreign codes in seconds! It all starts with a mistake but it becomes a further mistake when professionalism and presence of mind turn to personal favours and revenge.

Just a phone call away was one of the most intelligent cryptographers and assistant to Commander Trevor Strathmore, Susan Fletcher. When she was canoodling with her dreams and packing to celebrate her anniversary with her beloved, David Becker, the call surprises but shatters her even when the reason is unknown! Their hidden world was about to be exposed and free protection was given to everyone whose emails were encrypted by an agency not miles away. It was just a code away for the whole world to know their secret and create each other’s niche.

The Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller that deals with facts and the facades of people around you. The new attractive feature of this book is the premise which gives a sneak peek into the reel reality of the NSA. It is one of the good thriller books yet it fails to provide the mark that his first books made. The positive factors of ‘Digital Fortress’ is the premise, the twists, and the different characteristics of the characters which might seem similar but have their own additions. The conflicts, both personal and professional between characters provide a new dimension even when it goes to blackmailing your favourite person.

It just takes a few minutes to connect but NSA is taking longer due to parallel hunts and motives by different personnel. As you read this book, different sets of questions start a conflict but it isn’t much worse if you have encountered the ‘Da Vinci Code’. Dan Brown tries on his winning formula this time too and it hasn’t changed ever since the last few books. While the storyline almost remains the same, you don’t realize all of it until you sit down and contemplate it further.

It sticks to the plot until it lags in the second where a lot of characters jumble the narrative such that it extends to half a day more. Even though the characters play justice to the given descriptions, the story lags and lacks the lustre the crypto on the book cover has.

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