Goto discovers his assignment is a suicide mission. Amy and her father Douglas inform Randy that there are gold treasures from the World War II beneath the ocean and that it should be split equally among them. They hire a company owned by Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe (Bobby’s son) and his daughter Amy to lay underwater cables.
Randy does not trust some of their investors. The two meet up with potential investors and begin to build. The story then jumps to the 1990s where Lawrence’s grandson, Randy Waterhouse is working with Avi to create a secure digital fortress that is free from the government’s control and protects the privacy of its clients. Goto is also reassigned to an engineering department tasked with building a bunker in the mountains in Shanghai. Lawrence has also been assigned to the Detachment 2702 as one of the leading coders. Bobby is then reassigned to a group called Detachment 2702 which is involved in military maneuvers meant to confuse the Nazis and hide the fact that they can decode their messages. He is assigned to a team of coders called Cryptonomicon who are tasked with decoding Nazi messages.īobby Shaftoe meets a Japanese soldier, Goto Dengo, and the two become close friends. However, Lawrence moves up to become one of the leading coders in the army. Both men join the army, but Lawrence first joins as a member of the band due to his poor physical condition. After their studies, Lawrence joins the army while Turing makes his way back to England. During his time at Princeton, Lawrence meets other mathematicians Alan Turing and Rudolf Von Hacklheber and the trio become friends.
The story shifts to another section, introducing the audience to a mathematical genius in Princeton named Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse. The other group consists of coders who have been decoding secret military messages sent by the Nazis using the Enigma Machine. One division is led by Corporal Bobby Shaftoe, his team is tasked with locating any evidence of Allied presence in Shanghai and destroying it. The book opens up in Japan, where two divisions of the military are working hand in hand to decrypt Nazi message. Most of the characters in the modern era are descendants of those in the World War II period. Some events occur during World War II while others occur in the modern era. The book describes events occurring in different time periods but connected by the large cast of characters. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĬryptonomicon is a science fiction novel by esteemed writer Neal Stephenson.
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