Digital fortress / Dan Brown.
By: Brown, Dan.
Publisher: London : Corgi Books, 2004Description: 510 p. : 18 cm.ISBN: 0552151696 (pbk.); 9780552151696 (pbk.).Subject(s): Intelligence officers -- Fiction | Computer security -- Fiction | Cryptographers -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: '' When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corriders of power. The NSA is being held hostage- not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves..... - Back cover.Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU | 813.54 BRO 2004 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | GENLS,GENLS,01,GR | 1000511660 | |
Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU | 813.54 BRO 2004 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | GENLS,GENLS,01,GR | 1000511652 | |
Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU | 813.54 BRO 2004 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | GENLS,GENLS,01,GR | 1000511656 |
'' When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corriders of power. The NSA is being held hostage- not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves..... - Back cover.