When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy & the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Toll&, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.

But before Rachel can contact the President, she & Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.

In Deception Point, bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, & back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, & politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers Angels & Demons & The Da Vinci Code, Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- & behind every corner is a stunning surprise. Deception Point is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.





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Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical & historical scholarship & remains a remarkable fresh & powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appearance. Its fame, however, rests more on the exceptional clarity, scope & force of its argument, & the brilliance of its style, which is still a delight to read. Furthermore, both argument & style embody the Enlightenment values of rationality, lucidity & order to which Gibbon so passionately subscribed & to which his HISTORY is such a magnificent monument. ...

The first three volumes of Gibbon's DECLINE & FALL (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years. This year is the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, which has been widely noticed in the press, but even after two hundred years his book is still an authoritative work on Roman history. What is more, it remains wonderfully readable: witty, elegant & intriguing, full of the author's own personality. The six-volume Everyman edition
- the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices & two magisterial essays on the author & his work by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
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