Digital Fortress.DIGITAL FORTRESS. Dan Brown. 1998/ 2004. Read by Paul Michael. 10 cds. 12 hrs. Audio Renaissance. 1-59397-563-5. $44.95. Cardboard; plot notes. SA Readers who want to explore Brown before his popular Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Code get a chance to do so with this excruciatingly complicated 1998 novel. Digital Fortress is supposed to be an unbreakable code invented by Tankado, a disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see former employee of the National Science Agency (NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign )'s cryptography department. After making the program available on the Internet to anyone who wants it, Tankado tries to blackmail Trevor Strathmore, the deputy head, by threatening to sell the key to the highest bidder HIGHEST BIDDER, contracts. He who, at an auction, offers the greatest price for the property sold. 2. The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. if the NSA does not reveal the existence of its high-powered code breaker, TRANSLTR TRANSLTR Translator Supercomputer (from the fictional Dan Brown book Digital Fortress) , rendering it useless and wreaking havoc on the NSA, but protecting the privacy of computer users world wide. Before Strathmore can react, Tankado is assassinated. Plots, counterplots, chases, cold-blooded murders, and complications of all kinds ensue. Pleasant-voiced Michael narrates admirably. While the listener might occasionally like to shake the characters to get them to pay better attention, Michael patiently takes the reader by the hand and leads them through long-winded crypto-computer-techno-babble and suspense that seems never to come to an end. Mary Purucker, Beverly Hills P.L., Beverly Hills, CA |
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