A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers and secrets, spies and code breakers, cryptography and high-tech finance.
It is a work of great art, thought and creative daring; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity..
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.
And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.
But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa.
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.
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 the 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.
Navy--is assigned to detachment 2702.
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse--mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.
S.
With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, 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.
A New York Times Notable Book.
When the adult grandchildren of two men once involved in code-breaking espionage in World War II find a sunken Nazi submarine, they\'re led to a massive conspiracy, the effects of which can either enhance freedom--or subjugate the world.
A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers and secrets, spies and code breakers, cryptography and high-tech finance
