A gripping & page-turning thriller that explores themes of power information secrecy & war in the twentieth century From the author of the three-volume historical epic ' The Baroque Cycle' & Seveneves Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations & the private obsessions of men decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII & the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present