And doing this multiple times mid-scene is even worse because it distances the reader from the action and the characters.ĭeception Point makes me doubt these rules. Brown doesn’t ‘head-hop’, because line breaks are used to indicate when he is changing perspective, but I’ve heard that doing this mid-scene is generally ill-advised because it breaks up the action. The story is told from the POV of many characters, often jumping in and out of different characters’ heads mid-scene. It’s packed with the usual conspiracy tropes – the protagonists’ steady unearthing of the truth, mysterious deaths (and some nasty ones too, such as death-by-ice-forced-down-the-throat!), exciting attacks by the conspirators’ henchmen, mysterious figures pulling the strings, red herrings and twists. Being a conspiracy fiction writer myself, these are the sorts of stories I’m drawn to. When the team finds an anomaly, eventually learning that the discovery is one massive fake, they quickly become the targets of a conspiracy.

We learn that NASA has found a meteorite containing extraterrestrial fossils, and Rachel is part of a team sent to the Arctic to verify the discovery. Full spoilers for Deception Point ahead…ĭeception Point is about a government intelligence analyst called Rachel Sexton who is summoned by the President to help on a NASA discovery of enormous magnitude. My extra blog for this week looks at Dan Brown’s 2001 novel, Deception Point, one of his few non-Robert Langdon tales.

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