Deception Point - Dan Brown

I read Dan Brown's latest Robert Langdon book The Secret Of Secrets last year (or was it the year before? I lose track) and my overall impression was that it wasn't meant to be a Langdon book. I thought that it read like Brown's pre-Langdon techno-thrillers Deception Point and Digital Fortress, with Langdon shoehorned in because that's where the money is. My takeaway - other than it being shit - was that Brown was clearly tired of the character and the formula and wanted to go back to his earlier style of books, which (in my opinion) were always better than the Langdon books. I've been in a reading slump and when I need to get out of a slump I turn to simple thrillers. John Grisham is my go-to author, but this time I decided to revisit Deception Point because I remember loving it. Spoiler alert: it's dogshit, and it is in no way better than the Robert Langdon books - even the really, really bad ones. I wish I could go back in time and peek inside my brain to figure out what I liked…