Cryptonomicon - Softcover

"Electifying...hilarious...a picaresque novel about code making and code breaking, set both during World War II and during the present day."--"New York Times Book Review"Suspenseful...moves along as such a fantastic clip."--"Wall Street Journal"Rambling and revelatory...[Stephenson is] the hacker Hemingway."--"Newsweek"An engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history."--"Entertainment Weekly(A)"Fascinating...hysterical."--"USA Today"Big, complex, and ambitious...Promises to be one of the most extravagant literary creations of the turn of the millennium--and beyond."--"Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A hell of a read."--"Wired"Stephenson's new book proves that he is the rarest of geniuses."--"New York Post"A powerfully imagined story revolving around a vast conspiracy affecting history and different generations in one family who attempt to unravel its secrets."--"Seattle Post Intelligencer"There is a scope here, a wildness, that you rarely find in fiction today. Buckle up."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune

More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren--Randy and Amy--join forces to create a "data haven" in the South Pacific, only to uncover a massive conspiracy with roots in Detachment 2702. Reprint.