5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 25/05/2009

I really enjoyed reading this Dan Brown book.
This book has a lot of action and is unputdownable.
The secret coding breaking machine that no-one knows about has been stopped for the very first time!
The program has been written by someone who does not like the US Government going through the private emails/calls of the general public. So they have taken action!
Read to see if the people at National Security Agency can stop the program in time to save the world!!
Great read and a must have any any Dan Brown fan.

1.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 04/04/2008

Truly average and disappointing; as an author that relies heavily on suspense to sustain the interest of his readers, what looked like it was supposed to eventually turn out as a plot twist was all too obvious and I sat there thinking "This woman is a CRYPTOGRAPHER with a supposed IQ of 170, why can she not figure this out???"

4.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 09/07/2007

A very exciting book, though very similar to Brown's 'Deception Point'. I still enjoyed this alot, though not as much as 'Angels and Demons' and 'The Da Vinci Code', but this is nonetheless a worthwhile read and I would recommend it to all lovers of action/thriller novels. Very exciting, hard to put down.

3.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 30/06/2007

Dissapointing compared to Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code but still a good lazy day action book.

3.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 31/05/2007

An great thrill ride written with good flow. I would have to say that it doesn't compare to the Davinci Code for me as it doesn't have the controversy. A good story with plenty of suspense anyway.

5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 05/05/2007

Digital Fortress was an excellent read. It had a compelling that intrigued and excited me. The writing was amazing and clear. I really enjoyed the book. The book left me feeling and satisfied and contented I would recommend this book for many. It is definitely worth buying.

5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 11/03/2007

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. On a different theme from his Angels and Demons and Da Vinci COde books, it was quite refreshing. I was rivetted to the book and carted it around with me to get snippets of reading down here and there. I honestly couldn't put it down!! LOL 5 stars rating from me and highly recommended!

5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 24/02/2007

loved this book! dan brown often features strong women in his novels, which is nice, and this one is no different, as it stars the intelligent and powerful susan, who is caught up in a web of intrugue with regards to a specific code. this book is gripping just like all of the others, and is also more easy to understand, as there are less techinical terms mentioned. a must read.

5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 23/12/2006

NSA is America's top security agency. Its operations are so secret that it is aptly nicknamed “No such agency”. Top cryptographer genious Susan Fletcher, gets an urgent call from her boss, Commander Strathmore, to come to work on a holiday. She is given the shocking news that TRANSLTR, the NSA's incredibly fast and infallible code-breaking machine against which even the best computer encryption software is useless, is facing its nemesis. It is grappling with the Digital Fortress, an apparently unbreakable code created by an ex-NSA cryptographer, Ensei Tankado.

Tankado had threatened to make it available for public use if the NSA didn't make TRANSLTR's existence known to the general public. A potential deadly threat to the nation's security, this code has to be broken. Ensei has a secret partner and Susan is entrusted with the job of finding him/her. Adding to her frustrations is that her boss has sent her boyfriend David, an ordinary university professor, on a dangerous mission to Spain to retrieve this unbreakable code's key.

5.0 out of 5 based on 24 reviews. – Customer review on 23/12/2006

Susan is one of the top Code breakers at the NSA. She monitors the use of the code breaking machine that can break all codes in less than 3 hrs and is used by all forms of US intelligance. She is called in when a program is still running after 12+ hrs. At the same time her fiance is sent to Spain to try and locate the "key" to stopping the release of a code program that will allow the NSA to break codes that Digital Fortress (the encrypting program) is used to protect. In Spain it becomes clear that someone is out to keep the key safe as people who have come in contact with it are killed.
The story follows the progress to not only figuring out who has planted the code but how to keep it from letting the world into the NSA files