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Search - Cryptonomicon (Audio Cassette) (Unabridged)

Cryptonomicon - Audio Cassette - Unabridged
Author: Neal Stephenson, Scott Brick (Narrator)

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. — In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S.... more » 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 Watrehouse and Detatchment 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 grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine 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.

Audio Review:

When an innovative Internet company decides to lay cable in the seas around the Philippine Islands, the company becomes embroiled in a treasure hunt of astounding potential. With roots in the Japanese occupation of the islands and in the grandparents of a current manager of the project, the story places its current happenings against a backdrop of history. As the plot bounces between the 1940s and the present, Scott Brick brings a sardonic tone that suits this motley collection of characters. His characterizations are well presented and differentiated. Some transitional passages are read by an unidentified woman, which is helpful, but close attention will still be required to follow the plot. -- AudioFile

6 sound cassettes (ca. 9 hr.) : Dolby processed.

ISBN-13: 9781574534702
ISBN-10: 157453470X
Publication Date: 12/10/2001
Edition: Unabridged
Rating:

Currently 4/5 Stars.

4 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Fantastic Audio
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 0
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Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
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