Image by bennylin0724 via FlickrDigital Fortress is written by a guy who did bare minimal research into encryption, and use that as a premise to involved a McGuffin device (in this case, a "secret decoder ring" (no I wasn't kidding) and some standard chase plots. What Dan Brown knows about encryption appears to be gleamed from Wikipedia, and the hero appears to be modeled on himself (just like Langdon was).I admit that as a high concept and some simple reading it ain't that bad, but I'm a geek, and I get cranky when technology was described wrong and/or doesn't make sense. And they don't here.
Frankly, I consider the Da Vinci Code to be a borrowed high concept turned into a barely acceptable thriller that only was so successful because it had somehow involved Jesus. Digital Fortress doesn't even have that hook. The result is an acceptable if formulaic "thriller".
Rating: Skip it, unless you must read every Dan Brown book available.
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