Cryptonomicon [electronic resource]

Stephenson, Neal2021

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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. Its secret mission is to keep the Nazis ignorant that the enemy’s fabled Enigma code has been cracked.Fast-forward to the present where Waterhouse's grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a 'data haven' in Southeast Asia while the commander’s granddaughter, Amy, secretly finds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. Soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy, revealing a 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.