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. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. The mission of Waterhouse 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 an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S.

But that's only half of it.' -USA Today 'Hell of a read.' -WiredNeal Stephenson (Snow Crash The Diamond Age) hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped the twentieth century - and that have led us into the twenty-first. Cryptonomicon is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high-tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure. Dashing between World War II and the present day, Cryptonomicon is an epic adventure of codemakers and codebreakers soldiers, hackers, spies, pirates, lovers, prisoners power, secrets, conspiracies, great escapes - and a buried fortune in gold.'Engrossing … insightful. E-book extras: 'Stephensonia/Cryptonomica': ONE: 'Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ' (Neal addresses 'Frequently Anticipated Questions' and other fascinating facts) TWO: 'Mother Earth Motherboard' (Neal's landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on earth) THREE: 'Press Conference': Neal answers 'Why write about crypto?' and other penetrating questions.The smash New York Times bestseller and cult classic is at last a special-features-loaded e-book.

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