Enigma

Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published Sept. 1, 1996 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-8041-1548-3
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England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the lives of Allied sailors are in their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .

Until the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . .

As an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . . as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a …

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So thorough I almost drowned in the details. Great work, but not something to pick up if you're looking for a jaunty read. More power to Turing though. Feel I really know him now.

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Subjects

  • Espionage/Intrigue
  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / Thrillers
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Great Britain
  • Cryptography
  • Historical fiction
  • Secret service
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Fiction