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Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson, Paperback Merged people who have the jobWith this extraordinary first volume in an epoch making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse mathematical genius and young Captain in the U. S. Navy is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those