On storage cabin

The overall setting and background of Deception Point by Dan Brown is interesting. NASA is said to discover a huge meteorite buried in a thick flow of ice near the North Pole. It sends a crew there to investigate, and they manage to raise it, then take samples finding fossils inside of things that look like ancient Earth insects. The President plans to use this proof of extraterrestrial life to boost his flagging re-election campaign. Of course, that's just the beginning. There's nothing to hide away in a storage cabinets. But we're already wondering why Special Forces operatives killed a geologist in the opening of the book.

On Dutch Master

So I finished reading DECEPTION POINT by Dan Brown, one of the two thrillers he wrote before coming up with the art history and symbolism character of Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code, which has made him a big time success. Like all his books, it's well-researched, or at least seems to be to me. However, it concerns science only, not a fusion of science and art as in his popular series. Nobody in it knows or cares about any Dutch Master or Italian or whatever painters. In some ways, though, it's predictable in its twists and turns. The final villain is not a surprise, given their closeness to the events, and if you've read his other books, where he makes the least likely person nobody suspects be the true villain.