{"product_id":"cryptonomicon","title":"Cryptonomicon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCryptonomicon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNeal Stephenson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780380788620\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Morrow Paperbacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e944\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse--mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. 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 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 a game in this work of historical fiction, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFast-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. 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. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, this techno-thriller, \u003ci\u003eCryptonomicon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | Paperback | 9780380788620 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1765618","offer_id":49374551310488,"sku":"1765618","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/811HmmUbx3L.jpg?v=1783001425","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/cryptonomicon","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}