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Susan Fletcher, star of the NSA's cryptography division, is called in by NSA Deputy Director Trevor Strathmore after TRANSLTR, the NSA's code-breaking computer, encounters a code that it can't break. This code, called [[Title Drop|Digital Fortress]], was created by Ensei Tankado, a disgruntled NSA operative. When Tankado is found dead in Seville, Spain, Strathmore dispatches David Becker, Fletcher's fiancée, to investigate in the hope of finding a clue to breaking the code, while Fletcher and Strathmore investigate Tankado's mysterious partner "North Dakota", who unknown to them is in talks with a Japanese corporation to release the Digital Fortress code publicly. But as in any [[Dan Brown]] novel, all is not as it seems...

As with any [[Dan Brown]] book, [[Digital Fortress]] is infamous for some [[Did Not Do the Research|lapses of research]], particularly some glaring flaws in its portrayal of cryptography and its portrayal of Seville as a poorly equipped city, with a medical service almost as bad as some in third-world countries. Despite this, it remains a readable book if you keep the [[MST3K Mantra]] in mind (though opinions differ on this point).

As with any [[Dan Brown]] book, ''Digital Fortress'' is infamous for some [[Did Not Do the Research|lapses of research]], particularly some glaring flaws in its portrayal of cryptography and its portrayal of Seville as a poorly equipped city, with a medical service almost as bad as some in third-world countries. Despite this, it remains a readable book if you keep the [[MST3K Mantra]] in mind (though opinions differ on this point).

Compare ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', ''[[Angels & Demons]]'', ''[[Deception Point]]'' and ''[[The Lost Symbol]]''. Contrast with ''[[Cryptonomicon]]''.