![]() ![]() This is a very different novel from Stephenson's earlier The Diamond Age but at least as well written. The science is persuasive, the many characters are well drawn and interesting, and the imagination never flags. Randy becomes entangled in salvaging gold from a Nazi submarine - just to begin with. Randy Waterhouse is involved in setting up a data haven in the South Pacific and in the process meets Amy, the granddaughter of Bobby Shaftoe. ![]() Moving forward to the present time, the story follows Waterhouse's grandson, a crypto-hacker. Muscle for detachment 2702 is provided by Bobby Shaftoe, a Marine Raider. ![]() Waterhouse joins detachment 2702, a group dedicated to preventing the Nazis from learning that their codes are being read by the Allies - a pivotal event in the progress of the war. In it we meet Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a mathematician and friend of Alan Turing. C ryptonomicon is a densely plotted, many sided novel, shifting in time between World War II and the present. ![]()
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