DECEPTION POINT - Dan Brown

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Biographie:
I am amazed that the little kid who just wanted to fish and collect insects has cleaned butcher shops, built wheel lines for irrigation, built houses, graduated from college with a degree in wildlife biology, taught science and art, witnessed a coup in Paraguay, hitchhiked in southern Africa, walked across Spain, watched Himalayan Wrinkled Lipped Bats in Thailand, seen Mona Lisa and a saddle billed stork, gets excited about growing a good garden, is delighted that people like something he created enough to buy it, and lucky enough to do most of this with a wonderful wife and son....

Sommaire:
WHEN A NEW NASA SATELLITE SATELLITE DETECTS EVIDENCE OF AN ASTONISHINGLY RARE OBJECT BURIED DEEP IN THE ARCTIC ICE, THE FLOUNDERING SPACE AGENCY PROCLAIMS A MUCH-NEEDED VICTORY... A VICTORY THAT HAS PROFOUND IMPLICATION FOR U.S. SPACE POLICY AND THE IMPENDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. WITH THE OVAL OFFICE IN THE BALANCE, THE PRESIDENT DISPATCHES WHITE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST RACHEL SEXTON TO THE ARCTIC TO VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIND. ACCOMPANIED BY A TEAM OF EXPERTS, INCLUDING THE CHARISMATIC ACADEMIC MICHAEL TOLLAND, RACHEL UNCOVERS THE UNTHINKABLE - EVIDENCE OF SCIENTIFIC TRICKERY - A BOLD DECEPTION THAT THREATENS TO PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO CONTROVERSY. BUT BEFORE RACHEL CAN MAKE HER FINDINGS KNOWN, SHE REALISES, PERHAPS TOO LATE, THAT SUCH KNOWLEDGE PUTS HER AND TOLLAND IN DEADLY JEOPARDY. FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES IN AN ENVIRONMENT AS DESOLATE AS IT IS LETHAL, AS IT IS LETHAL, THEY PROCESS ONLY ONE HOPE FOR SURVIVAL...