Characters in "Deception Point" by Dan Brown

There are a vast variety of characters in "Deception Point" by Dan Brown. Some are crazy, some are scandalous, and murderous. There is a big contrast between the characters battling an uphill challenge for the presidency of the United States between Sedgewick Sexton and Zach Henry, and they eventually drag many other characters into their conflict for the presidency. Here are a list and some descriptions of some of the main characters.

.Rachel Sexton is the daughter of Senator Sexton and she is not on his side during the race for the presidency and is trying to cope with her father cheating on other people and taking massive amounts of money illegally for his campaign. The president, Henry, wants to use her against her father to help promote a discovery made by NASA to help his side stay in the presidential race.

.Michael Tolland is a researcher that Rachel meets when they arrive at NASA's base on an Ice Flow in the Arctic Ocean. He is the head civilian scientist in charge of verifying NASA's breakthrough discovery that could change the world forever.

.Sedgewick Sexton is a Senator who is running for the presidency, and has the popular vote. He mainly has it because he plans to abolish NASA and use its funding to help kids get better education and help the country, instead of sending fifteen million dollars into space every year to fund the ISS and other projects like that, saying the country would have better uses for the money. He also has been bribing many public space exploration companies, saying that if they fund him, he will do away with NASA and let them do whatever they want in space, with no problems.

.Zach Henry is the current president, and he is a strong supporter of NASA, which he believes is on the verge of a new discovery, and which will get more people to be on his side, after saying that NASA should not be funded any more, and that they should be privatized. He feels like Rachel can help him with getting more support and to keep her dad from being the president.

All of these main characters connect with each other in the text, starting when Sedgewick Sexton wants to talk to his daughter, Rachel, about what he will do as president, and then says nonsense about NASA. When Rachel leaves, President Henry wants to talk with Rachel about NASA's discovery and to keep her dad out of office, and when she arrives at the Arctic base, Michael Tolland is showing her what she needs to know about NASA's discovery.