Digital Fortress

This is another Dan Brown novel...I believe this will be the third one now that I've read (mostly) on a flight to or from somewhere. They really do make good plane fodder. It's easy to kinda melt into 'em and ignore the screaming kid in the seat behind you. Anyway, this was a fun read about cryptography, and the customary better-looking-than-any-real-nerd set of characters who go, fight, win to triumph over adversity. The central plot is, the NSA has received an unbreakable encryption code and are, in essence, being held hostage by the author. Do they give in to demands? Have people "rubbed out"? It was, as with his other works, quick paced and enjoyable to read. The bits and pieces tie together pretty well in the end, though I must say, Mr. Brown seems to have some "thing" about the dashing leading man and the voluptuous leading woman ending the story, post-shag, staring longingly into each others eyes whilst "Let's get it on" plays in the background... Perhaps he views this as some literary cigarette after the main story.