Neal Stephenson · 1999 · Novel
Setting: 1942
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.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: FictionWorld War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945 in fictionData encryption (Computer science)CryptographyLiteratureScience FictionLong Now Manual for CivilizationCode and cipher storiesFiction, technological
isfdb_id: 19870
openlibrary_id: OL38494W
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