Digital Fortress is a fast-paced techno-thriller by Dan Brown, built around cryptography, government surveillance, and a code that threatens the core of U.S. intelligence. When the NSA’s powerful code-breaking system encounters an encrypted message it cannot decipher, head cryptographer Susan Fletcher is pulled into a crisis that quickly becomes larger than a technical failure. The story moves between the secret corridors of the National Security Agency and a parallel search beyond its walls, combining political pressure, betrayal, digital espionage, and personal danger. This suspense novel explores the tension between national security and private freedom, asking what happens when the systems designed to protect a country become powerful enough to endanger the people they claim to defend.
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Corgi Books
Publication year: 2004
Number of pages: 510
Original language: English