Robert Harris Enigma Hardcover First US Edition Book
This listing is for Robert Harris Enigma Hardcover First US Edition.Hardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Random House; 1st US Edition, 2nd Printing (September 11, 1995)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0679428879ISBN-13: 978-0679428879 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 newly-released four-rotor encrypting machines. Returning to Bletchley Park, the young cryptanalyst fleetingly encounters Claire Romilly, his faithless lover, before she