Digital Fortress

I've read all Dan Browns books and this was my least favourite!! It was a good story and full of the usual twists and turns but it lacked his usual adventure! It didn't grip me like the others, could easily put it down for a day or two, which is unusual for me and a Dan Brown book!!

This book is typical Dan Brown and if you love his other books you may well enjoy this one.
As with his others it follows a very clear formula. Bookish, handsome male teacher and a beautiful woman with a job in an otherwise male dominated industry or STEM use their knowledge to end a plot. The perpetrators is always a ‘surprise’ as the obviously dangled culprit from the beginning is murdered and/or then exonerated. Betrayal, near disaster, all fixed, ends in a plush hotel room with at least on of the two beautiful leads wearing a robe.
In this book though it is completely unbelievable that any of the characters have an even passing knowledge of the job they are supposed to be experts at. They miss the most basic of codes over and over, and it is startling clear that the characters intelligence has been limited by Brown’s own. None of their motivations really make sense at all, and the book is robbed of much emotional weight by the sheer number of coincidences needed to keep the plot moving.
I’m sure this could entertain you on a plane ride with nothing else to do but if you have any other choice at all read that instead.

Another triumph of a book.