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by Robert Harris (Author)
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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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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Harris's follow-up to his bestselling fiction debut, Fatherland, is a high-adrenaline thriller set at Bletchley Park, the remote, ultra-secret WWII British codebreaking center. In February 1943, having just cracked the key to the confoundingly complex Nazi code known as Shark, Thomas Jericho, an unworldly young academic, returns to his old digs at Cambridge to recuperate from nervous exhaustion and a broken heart. But Jericho has time to regain only a modicum of strength before he is pressed back into service to break the latest Nazi code?the putatively impregnable Enigma, generated on Germany's diabolical new four-rotor encrypting machines. Returning to Bletchley Park, the young cryptanalyst fleetingly encounters Claire Romilly, his faithless lover, before she vanishes into the night. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, three huge U.S. merchant marine convoys are steaming directly into a killer-pack of Nazi U-boats; unless Jericho can crack Enigma, the ships and their precious cargo of supplies and munitions will be destroyed. The situation complicates, with intimations of treason and chicanery at high levels, when Jericho discovers hidden in Claire's room four unencrypted intercepts that coincide with sudden radio silence from the Nazi subs. Aided by Claire's roommate, Hester Wallace, Jericho must battle clandestine interference from Britain's wartime hierarchy as he races to break the cypher, and to find out the secret of Claire's fate. Superbly drawn characters skulking through atmospherically grim settings hallmark this novel, a rare mix of cerebral and visceral thrills that features risky exploits complementing the exhilarating challenge?to both Jericho and the reader?of solving daunting puzzles within puzzles. It doesn't take a Jericho to decode where this book is headed: right on to the bestseller lists. BOMC featured selection; major ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Communicates the Challenges, Captures the Thrill, Oct 22 2001
By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)


For captivating true life signals intelligence there are several books one can go to, including those by James Bamford on the American system (Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets) but for really getting into the enormity of the challenges and the thrill of the individual code-breakers when they succeeded, this is the book I recommend.


It completely ignores the enormous contributions made by the Poles (who gave the English two Enigma machines at the beginning of the war) as well as the heroic deeds of Tommy Brown (youngest George Medal winner at 16, survived with code materials taken from a sinking German ship), but I have found no better novel to communicate the absolute goose-bump emotional roller-coaster that the Bletchley Park gang experienced.


If anything, this novel convey a human side to code-breaking that offsets the modern-day obsession with massive computers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read Harris and Understand, Jun 8 2001
By "de-mon" (Heidelberg, Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
Harris has described a time in history when Britain still was able to produce genius but lacked the wherewithall to capitalize. The book describes the hardships of fighting World War II on a shoe string and the heroism of the various cogs in the wheel. It is one of my five favorite books and I have read it many times over, finding something new each and every time. Highly recomended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, Dec 3 2000
This review is from: Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
Robert Harris has done it again, after the triumph of Fatherland he has written another masterpiece thriller about the British codebreakers during The Battle of the Atlantic. Harris's hero Tom Jericho is a great mathematician and codebreaker at Bletchley Park who is out of the game due to a nervous breakdown, but is called back to Bletchley Park when the Allies find out that the Germans have changed their codes all of a sudden. The reason Jericho is called back is that since he broke the Germans's code last time, his superiors think he can do it again, but there is another element that puzzles Jericho: The girl he was having a relationship with, Claire Rommily, has stolen some cryptograms and disappeared into thin air! Suddenly the Forign Office begin an investigation on her, is there a spy in Bletchley Park? Jericho (with the help of Claire's housemate Hester Wallace) intends to find out just that. It would be a crime for me to give away any more. One of the things I loved the best in this book is Tom Jericho's character, he is a normal human being. Not Superman (as some of my favourite authors tend to do, Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum etc.). He is not particularly good looking(although I hear that Dougray Scott has been cast as him), suave or strong. I believe that with this book, Harris has proved himself to be the succesor to John LeCarre in passing on moral messages without actually writing them out loud! Please continue to delight us Mr. Harris!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid writing--great plot
ENIGMA' by Robert Harris, is a mix of history and fiction blended nicely together to make a very interesting book. Read more
Published on Feb 27 2005 by D.Haines

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Effort
I think he has put out much better books and this one was the first to really disappoint me. The book is an average book, but I had just read Fatherland so this one was a let... Read more
Published on April 18 2002 by John G. Hilliard

4.0 out of 5 stars Intersting mystery, even though the "theme" was old
I found this a harder book to wade through than Fatherland.
I suppose this was partially due to a darker tone to the book, maybe this was imparted by the fact that much of the... Read more
Published on Jan 5 2002 by M. Griffith

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than Fatherland
Vividly recreated portrait of Bletchly Park, offering a real historical insight into the birth of the computer age. Read more
Published on May 18 2001 by james575

4.0 out of 5 stars History made fun.
Enigma is the 2nd book by Robert Harris that I've read. Once again, he has a knack for drawing the reader in. Read more
Published on Mar 8 2001 by Albert L. Riess III

4.0 out of 5 stars Keeps You Reading, but A Little Slow
This book never reaches a frantic pace, but it is an engrossing and interesting look at one of the most important projects of World War II, Bletchley Park's interception and... Read more
Published on Feb 24 2001 by Adam Dukovich

4.0 out of 5 stars Clue for #13 across: 6 letters, A Puzzling thing, riddle
What do you go for first in the papers - sports? business? the news?. It's one or the other for most of us. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2001 by michaeleve

4.0 out of 5 stars Another great book.
Fantastic fictional thriller on the codebreakers in England responsible for cracking the dreaded Nazi "Enigma" code. Read more
Published on Dec 8 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars One man holds the keys to England's salvation
In 1943, the Axis appear to be on the run on all fronts but one - the Battle of the Atlantic, where German subs ferociously prey on shipping carrying supplies desperately needed... Read more
Published on Nov 7 2000 by Rottenberg's rotten book review

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating enigma
I loved the book. I can't really improve on the other reader reviews, but wanted to mention that this little known part of the war effort was credited by many historians as a... Read more
Published on Nov 1 2000 by Anthony Horwood

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