[Skaffa] PDF Cryptonomicon
By Neal Stephenson
Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 5-Nov-
2002.With this extraordinary first volume in 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. 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 by the
gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where
Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson,
