Enigma (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books)

by RobertHarris (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.39

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.39

  In March 1943, inside Britain's code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park, cryptanalysts are facing their worst nightmare: Germany's U-boats have unexpectedly changed their Enigma cipher, and the Battle of the Atlantic suddenly hangs in the balance. By the author of Fatherland.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.60

  LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE.
  --The Washington Post Book World
  England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .
  A TENSE AND THOUGHTFUL THRILLER.
  --San Francisco Chronicle
  Until the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . .
  SUSPENSEFUL AND FASCINATING.
  --The Orlando Sentinel
  As an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . . as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. . . .
  GRIPPING . . . CAPTIVATING .
  --New York Daily News
  ELEGANTLY RESEARCHED . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours.
  --People
  SATISFYING . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways.
  --Entertainment Weekly
  SUSPENSEFUL . . . FIENDISHLY CLEVER.
  --Detroit Free Press

  From the Paperback edition.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $12.37

  Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.