The Conspiracy

President Zachary Herney is fighting for a tough re-election. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a man with powerful friends and a mission: to privatise NASA and reduce its expenses. The Senator has numerous supporters who will benefit from the change, especially after the embarrassing episode in 1996, when the Clinton government was informed by NASA that there was evidence of life on other planets.

Struggling to survive a series of errors that threaten its political image, NASA makes a stunning discovery: a strange meteorite buried in the Arctic. The President is informed that the object found will have decisive implications for the American space program. However, given the North American space agency's wavering reputation, will the discovery be valid or not?

Rachel Saxton, a White House Secret Service intelligence analyst, is assigned to confirm the authenticity of the find. Rachel's mission is to summarise complex reports into one-page briefs. In this case, the President needs her data before the final statement he will make to the American people, which will be decisive in his re-election.

Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic oceanographer Michael Tolland, Rachel discovers the unthinkable: evidence of a scientific hoax, a trap that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can contact the President, Rachel and Michael are subjected to a relentless pursuit across the Arctic, take refuge in a nuclear submarine, and end up imprisoned on a small boat off the coast of New Jersey, while the American capital boils with expectations regarding another scientific fraud and tempers flare in the antechambers of power within the left wing.

Acclaimed for the mastery and genius with which he connects History, Science, and Politics, Dan Brown stands out in a new novel where nothing is as it seems and a fabulous surprise awaits us on every page.