“Sometimes a thin thread is enough to discover something.“
Fast-paced thriller, with a sustained rhythm capable of involving the reader. Even the least passionate of the genre, will not stop to read it, at lease up to three-quarters of the story. But then the trouble comes, and you start to feel the weight of the many scattered technical explanations. Military procedures, armaments, institutional procedures and street references, that are simply too much; but after all this is the stylistic code of the author. In our opinion, streamlining the book by a few chapters would have been a much appreciated gesture.
The story remains well written from many points of view, but it did not convey the warmth of the pages to us. What we are looking for when we smell a newly bought book, regardless of the literary genre. We had the impression of finding ourselves reading a screenplay for a film, or better to say, a written story, already prefiguring the cinematographic transposition. Nothing wrong, for someone it could be a good thing, for someone else absolutely not. We belong to this second category. We have felt physically deflate the emotional load that instead should have supported the intertwining of the events of the various characters.
This time the author stays in the United States to set his thriller. The election campaign for the race to the White House between the incumbent president and the opposition candidate is fought over the management of public spending and the usefulness of the space agency, unable to achieve any kind of result despite the huge funding received. The privatization of the space program will lead to a no holds barred fight between the two candidates (and their mutual staff). Just when the opposition candidate has victory in hand, the space agency makes a discovery of historical significance in the ice of Antarctica, capable of challenging not only the race for the presidency of the country, but above all the history of humanity. Until two civil scientists and a trusted White House person decide to investigate to find out the truth.
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Dan Brawn, Deception Point, Pocket Books, 2001
