The chemistry between Susan and David is well written even the code between them “Without Wax” was quite nice. The characters are interesting, and I was eager to know more of them. The pages kept turning, and I was glued to the story from start to finish. What defines a thriller to me is pace, and this book has loads of it. David Becker, Susan’s fiancé, travels to find that ring. The NSA is determined to stop that from happening, but can they? Tankado dies on the other side of the world, holding with him, a ring that has the code to stop Digital Fortress. With the code, Tankado holds the NSA to ransom. That code is called Digital Fortress, developed by one who was once their own, Ensei Tankado. The NSA’s code breaking supercomputer, which has never taken very long to break a code, has been stuck on a piece of code for hours. When she comes in, everything seems as normal as she left it, but her boss tells her it is not. Susan Fletcher, head cryptographer at the NSA is surprised when she’s called in on her day off. Even though it is a digital world these days, it’s hardly a fortress, so I wondered what the book would bring. The first book I got was this one, and a title that intrigued me from the get-go.

I had heard of Dan Brown, mostly for his book The Da Vinci Code, but somehow, the author and his books eluded my bookshelf and even when they came to it, I delayed reading.

Digital fortress code at the end