Cryptonomicon
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9780380973460
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0380973464
ISBN-13
9780380973460
eBay Product ID (ePID)
790035
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cryptonomicon
Number of Pages
928 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Thrillers / General, Literary, Thrillers / Technological, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
47.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-011685
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
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. In 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, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. 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. 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. 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; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.T3868C79 1999
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- t***e (337)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseDelighted with this! Super fast shipping too!
- -***b (70)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseCame in pretty good condition- a little banged up but not bad. And the packaging was also pretty good
- n***v (2964)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast! Well Packaged! Good Communication!