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Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson 2002 Avon Paperback Book

Description: Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson 2002 Avon Paperback Book Like new. Cover is clean with mild shelf wear. Spine is stiff. Page edges are clean. No writing, torn, missing or loose pages. See photos for more details. Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty—we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious." All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes—inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe—team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.

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Narrative Type: Fiction

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

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Year Printed: 2003

Vintage: No

Brand: Avon Books

Personalize: No

Type: Novel

EAN: 9780060512804

ISBN: 9780060512804

Literary Movement: Post-Modernism, Modernism

Era: 2000s

Personalized: No

Features: Unabridged

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Cryptonomicon

Number of Pages: 1168 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2002

Topic: Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Literary, Science Fiction / General

Item Height: 1.8 in

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 18.8 Oz

Item Length: 6.8 in

Author: Neal Stephenson

Item Width: 4.2 in

Format: Mass Market

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