Regarding the heart of the NSA, if a virus or a hacker threatens the most powerful computer in the world, which is also the most protected, agents are deployed to counter this attack. The scene is set, and throughout this novel, we witness twists and turns where the keys are the gateways to encrypted data.
The messages are encoded and increasingly complex to decipher. The Grail, the ultimate dream where a computer could decrypt all our conversations, our messages, our emails, is the theme of this book. A bit like Jules Verne, Dan Brown describes a troubling world. American secret services would thus have their ears on each of our smartphones or computers. The author introduces us to the secret services, with the NSA perhaps being even more nebulous than the CIA.
After The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown offers us a magnificent and captivating novel where the heroes are faced with a manhunt and a race against time to prevent the destruction of the NSA’s electronic brain. A ring is the key to the mystery. Deception, trickery, time is running out with a killer on the trail of a university professor of cryptology. We find ourselves on the border of science fiction between reality and mystification.
