{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Cryptonomicon","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/cryptonomicon","description":"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\u0026#39;s fabled Enigma code. It is a game in this work of historical fiction, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.\n\nFast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse\u0026#39;s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a \u0026quot;data haven\u0026quot; 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\u0026#39;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.\n\nA breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson\u0026#39;s most accomplished and affecting work to date, this techno-thriller, 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.","author_name":"Neal Stephenson","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/neal-stephenson","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/book_mappings/7332619/2b8c686e09d465bb1b8aa2fd9531be4d6842e9a1.jpeg","thumbnail_width":354,"thumbnail_height":500}