CRYPTONOMICON.

Mass Market Paperback with 1152 pgs. Copyright 1999. Cryptonomicon is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure..But that's only half of it. A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers, secrets, gold, spies, codemakers and codbreakers, conspiracies, power; pirates, prisoners, lovers and great escapes from one of the boldest imaginations in comtempory fiction.