Product Description

In March 1943, inside Britain's code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park, cryptanalysts are facing their worst nightmare: Germany's U-boats have unexpectedly changed their Enigma cipher, and the Battle of the Atlantic suddenly hangs in the balance. By the author of "Fatherland".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1081057 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code. Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labour, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his coworkers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy. The plot is pure fiction but the historical background, Alan Turing's famous wartime computing project that cracked the German U-boat communications code, is real and accurately portrayed. Enigma is convincingly plotted, forcefully written, and filled with well-drawn characters; in short, it's everything a good techno-mystery should be. --James Early

Sunday Times
‘Works triumphantly... Enigma totally gripped me’

Evening Standard
‘Extraordinarily good - undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come’