CRYPTONOMICON

by Neal Stephenson

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: William Heinemann, 1999 . Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. This complex and ambitious cyber-thriller, which begs comparison with Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, features half a dozen well- conceived plot lines. During World War II, the mathematical genius and cryptographer Lawrence Waterhouse, a friend of Alan Turing, is instrumental in breaking the Nazi's Enigma code. Some 60 years later, his

• Binding: Wrappers

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