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Catherine wrote: "Never heard of it...is it a good book?"
I'll let you know when I read it, I just ordered it off amazon.com but I've heard really great things about it.
Summary: The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters. The first group is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, as well as disillusioned Axis military and intelligence figures whom they encounter. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.

Catherine wrote: "Never heard of it...is it a good book?"
I'll let you know when I read it, I just ordered it off amazon.com but I've heard really great things about it.
Summary: The novel f..."
I actually looked it up here...and read the synopsis...it does look good :) and I love historical fiction...although..I though it was going to be sci-fi.

Catherine wrote: "I actually looked it up here...and read the synopsis...it does look good :) and I love historical fiction...although..I though it was going to be sci-fi."
I did too at first but it is just very geeky history, so my type of novel.

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