Cryptonomicon

DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Light loss to silver text of Stephenson's name on front DJ cover ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 928 pages; "In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhousemathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navyis assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asiaa place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. "

Product Info

ISBN: 0380973464

ISBN-13: 9780380973460

Publisher: Avon Books

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Seller Info

AinsworthBooks

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Website: https://www.ainsworthbooks.com

Country: Canada