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{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 918 pages Published 1999 Locus Award for Best SF Novel (2000) HarperCollins eBook (2003) With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be 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. As an added bonus, the e-book edition of this New York Times bestseller includes an excerpt from Stephenson's new novel, Seveneves. 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
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- Author
- Neal Stephenson
- Publisher
- William Morrow; HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061792571
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (1,682 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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