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Description: A thriller on the breaking of a secret German radio code during World War II. The protagonists are two British cryptographers, a man and a woman, and their work becomes a race to crack the code in time to save a convoy of U.S. ships from being sunk by U-boats. By the author of The Fatherland.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1995]
Call number: 620341
Creator: Harris, Robert (1957-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0091779235; 9780091779238
Dimensions: 24 cm

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