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Dan Brown’s thriller Deception Point ain’t very, and I wouldn’t recommend it. I skipped around to ignore the political plot and stick with the action, which was far-fetched enough. Granted, it’s a story, not a documentary. But, once again, Brown apparently can’t help ignoring that the aim of fiction is to touch the heart and instead tries to make it all seem factual–as he did, so deceptively, in the Da Vinci Code. He says at the beginning of DP that all the technology mentioned exists. He forgot the Internet, wherein you can find out that much of it doesn’t. His nasty Republican (of course) senator did in the politico aspect for me. I also disliked his putdown of ALH84001 as proven to be wrong, when in fact it hasn’t been. Controversial?Certainly. But not wrong, Dan. Even some of his fans don’t like the book much.