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To read a techno-science thriller like 'Deception Point', you must be prepared to swallow some throat-clogging stuff at the outset. First, you have to buy the premise - in this case, that governmental agencies will knowingly commit all manner of fraud, felonies, and deceit and cause countless deaths in order to save...NASA. [ *1 ] Second, you must swallow that the book's characters truly believe their science and technology is supreme, it's light-years beyond anything anyone has conceived of ever before, it's infallible and that it will not fail - ever. And finally, you must buy that these characters sincerely believe that "top secret" means just that. Top secret means nobody outside the chosen few, not a single soul living or dead, knows what's up. Now, if you can swallow all this, then you're going to have a good time with this book. If not, spare yourself.
The first part of Brown's lengthy novel builds the hard-to-swallow scaffolding and introduces the cast of characters. It......

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