From your #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno and the “expert of smart thrills” (People) comes a “rocket-fast thriller” (Vince Flynn) about an astonishing NASA discovery that unravels a deadly conspiracy that leads completely towards the White House.

Whenever a NASA satellite television spots proof an astoundingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory-one that could possess profound about Deception Point implications for US space policy as well as the impending presidential election. With his re-election hanging in the total amount, the President sends White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Glaciers Shelf to confirm the authenticity from the find.

Accompanied by a group of experts, like the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: proof scientific trickery. Before she can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins managed by a secret power broker who’ll stop at nothing to hide the reality. Fleeing for his or her lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their just hope for success can be to find out who’s behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will find out, may be the most shocking deception of most with this “taut, fast-paced, barn-burner of a publication” (St. Petersburg Moments).