Digital Fortress : A Thriller

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Review: Digital Fortress is the techno-thriller of the century. It explodes in a fiery burst of action from the first as former programmer Ensai Takando tragically dies trying to convey a message. At the same time, Susan Fletcher is called in by her boss at the National Security Agency to inspect the building's algorithm breaking computer, TRANSLTR. Meanwhile David Becker a professor of languages and Susan's Fiancée, is called by his fiancé's boss to go to Spain to retrieve Takando's possessions, all the time being tailed by the deaf assassin, Hullhot.
This book kept my attention from the start to the very end with edge-of-your seat action spread evenly between real-life descriptions of settings and computer functions. The detail to which the settings are described is phenomenal. Weather it be the Heart of Spain, the bowels of the NSA, or a Sid Vicious Punk Rock Concert, Dan Brown manages to place you there in such a way that you couldn't leave if you tried.
This and all of Dan Brown's works are very accurate, both historically and technologically. I've been to Spain. I've seen the Cathedrals and the thin winding streets. And all the time I was thinking of how accurate Digital Fortress. The sights where just as Dan Brown had been described in the book. I also am in the field of computer programming. I don't care what the other nerds who review this book say. I found Digital Fortress Technically correct. I under stood the rotating clear text based algorithm. I feel it is possible that if you have 6 million processors working together, you can crack an encrypted email using the brute force method of cryptography. I've even tested it. It worked.
This book is wonderful, maybe the best I've ever read, if not on my top 10 list. This is definitely a book that most people should read. the more people that know about the NSA and governmental power to intercept email, the better.