パズル・パレス 上

by Dan Brown, ダン·ブラウン

全通信を傍受・解読できるＮＳＡのスーパーコンピュータ「トランスレータ」が狙われる。対テロ対策として開発されたが、一般市民の通信全てをも監視可能なこのコンピュータの存在は決して公にできない国家機密であった。だが、この状況に憤った元スタッフが、自ら開発した「デジタル・フォートレス」という解読不可能な暗号ソフトを楯に、「トランスレータ」の公表を迫ったのだ。このソフトが流布されれば、アメリカは完全に無防備になってしまう…。

300 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 2009

About the author

Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.

In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.”

The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing. He lives in New England with his yellow lab, Winston.

Brown’s latest novel, Origin, explores two of the fundamental questions of humankind: Where do we come from? Where are we going?