Decipher
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312996437 (0312996438)
Publish date: February 1st 2005
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages no: 586
Edition language: English
The protagonists were too flawless, the science was implausibly deformed to fit the plot.It felt like it had been written with too close an eye on the movie rights, and I admit it would make quite a reasonable techno-thriller, that would sit happily alongside (say) "2012".
The protagonists were too flawless, the science was implausibly deformed to fit the plot.It felt like it had been written with too close an eye on the movie rights, and I admit it would make quite a reasonable techno-thriller, that would sit happily alongside (say) "2012".
Written like a sci-fi movie, Dan Brown style. No character development, all drones. Mingled with a million 2012 end-of-the-world crackpot theories. Nice if you like that kind of thing, Holywood movies are full of the same thing... and does a very good work on the suspense/thriller angle.
The year is 2012, which is, of course, the year the Mayan calendar predicts great change, a new age of peace, or the destruction of the human race, depending on who you listen to.Tension between the United States and China is at an all time high and war might break out at any moment. The Chinese ap...