An edition of Cryptonomicon (1999)

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An edition of Cryptonomicon (1999)

Cryptonomicon

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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is 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 Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded 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. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.

Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a 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. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.

A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring.

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Harper Perennial
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Cover of: Criptonomicon I
Criptonomicon I: El codigo Engima (Ciencia Fccion / Science Fiction)
November 1, 2005, Ediciones B
Paperback in Spanish - Tra edition
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
2002-11, Avon Books
in English
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
November 5, 2002, Avon
in English
Cover of: Criptonomicón III. El Código Aretusa
Criptonomicón III. El Código Aretusa
junio 2002, Ediciones B
Paperback in Spanish - 1ª
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
November 5, 2002, Avon
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
2000, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
2000, Arrow Books
in English
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
Apr 27, 2000, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House, Random House
paperback in English
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
May 3, 2000, Harper Perennial
Paperback
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
1999, Heinemann
in English
Cover of: Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
1999, Avon Books
in English

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Paperback
Number of pages
928

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OL24654162M
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cryptonomicon00neal_0
ISBN 13
9780380788620

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