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.įast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a data haven in Southeast Asia-a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. 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 an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse-mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Goto Dengo spends a large part of the war in the jungles of New Guinea.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.
Lawrence Waterhouse travels around to Qwghlm, Brisbane, Manila and other places on official duty, as does Bobby Shaftoe who is assigned to places like China, North Africa, Norway, Sweden and the Philippines. Turing works at Bletchley Park, which is the center of the Allies cryptoanalysis in the war in Europe. There are many settings in Europe during World War II. Randy and Amy travel to his grandmother's house in Whitman, Washington where Randy retrieves the information of his grandfather's time in World War II.
There are also some scenes in Washington where Randy grew up and attended the University of Washington at Seattle.
Randy and Avi live in California so there are many scenes there and at the Three Siblings Computer Center where Randy worked.
Princeton University in New Jersey is the setting where Lawrence, Rudy and Alan are students. There are scenes in Shanghai, China during the War, where Bobby Shaftoe was stationed. There are many different locations that are settings for the action of this novel as the different characters move around the world in both war time and modern times.
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