Deception Point #2

Senator Sedgewick Sexton talks with his campaign manager; a young lady named Gabrielle Ashe, who apparently is smart and attractive, about which issues he should stress in his presidential debates. Gabrielle was an intern but she came up with the idea of assaulting the president's decision to continue funding NASA even though it has been proving that it is a money-pit. Senator Sexton has had an affair with her which Gabrielle now regrets. Rachel meets the president and he sends her off to the Artic circle because NASA has found something there of extreme importance. Senator Sexton meets with an unidentified man in a parking garage who has been funding his campaign, but also wants something that we don't know back in return(he probably wants a political favor). Rachel travels to the NASA base in a jet that flies 1500 miles per hour and arrives there in 3 hours. When she gets to the NASA base she is taken to a large inflated igloo where the whole NASA team has been researching the "important" discovery. The discovery is shown to be a large meteorite to have come down from space 300 years in the past. Rachel really doesn't know why this is so important, but as soon as she passes the curtain into the research area she is in awe of what she is seeing.

I have ended this blog post on a cliff-hanger and I am excited to read more for next week

-Scott

Deception Point #1

I actually made it to the library! Now I am reading the book Deception Point by Dan Brown.

In the prolugue a geologist is dogsledding and he is confronted by men who tell him to transmit a strange message on his radion. For some reason unknown to us they take him into their helicopter and push him out when they are at a high altitude.
As the book begins it follows Rachel Sexton at a diner. She is there to meet her father: the presidential hopefull Sedgewick Sexton. He called her to the meeting to try and persuade her to work for his campaign. Rachel does not want to leave her job because she has worked hard for it. The story switches to that of a army team in the arctic. The team has been observing a building for 10 days and apparently something big is going to happen there. The reason why the team is observing the building is unknown but I predict we will soon know why they are there. The story switches back to Rachel as she goes to the NRO(the national reconnaissance office). We find out that Rachel's job is to sift through intel and report what is relevent to the president to him. When Rachel arrives at William Pickering's (the NRO director) he tells her that she has been directly requested by the president for a personal meeting with an unknown subject. The president sent a helicopter and Rachel gets in it. Delta one(the army guy) sends in his microbot to eavesdrop on the building and when he does he finds everything is the way he expected it. Rachel arrives at Wallops island and gets out of the chopper. She gets onto Air Force One as directed.

I like this book it is a fast read.

-Scott