Enigma

by Robert Harris | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099992004 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ARTurner of Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on 6/29/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by ARTurner from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, June 29, 2008

Amazon.co.uk Review

A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code. Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labour, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his coworkers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy. The plot is pure fiction but the historical background, Alan Turing's famous wartime computing project that cracked the German U-boat communications code, is real and accurately portrayed. Enigma is convincingly plotted, forcefully written, and filled with well-drawn characters; in short, it's everything a good techno-mystery should be.

(I don't actually plan to read this one; it came free with The Ghost, which I do plan to read. Nevertheless, keeping it for now, as hubby may want to read it.)

Journal Entry 2 by ARTurner from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sending as a bonus with two books sold on eBay: enjoy!

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