{"product_id":"9780099992004_335","title":"Enigma by Harris, Robert | Subject:Literature \u0026 Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears. Review \"The brilliance ofEnigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar\" (The Times)\"Enigma totally gripped me\" (Sunday Times)\"After the resounding success of his first novel,Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer\" (Mail on Sunday)\"Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come\" (Evening Standard)\"I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked\" (Observer) Book Description A number one bestselling war thriller from the award-winning master of the literary and historical thriller genre: Robert Harris. Adapted into an award-winning film, with screenplay by Tom Stoppard, starring Kate Winslet and Saffron Burrows. From the Inside Flap \"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE.\"--The Washington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .\"A TENSE AND THOUGHTFUL THRILLER.\"--San Francisco ChronicleUntil the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . .\"SUSPENSEFUL AND FASCINATING.\"--The Orlando SentinelAs an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . . as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. . . .\"GRIPPING . . . CAPTIVATING .\"--New York Daily News\"ELEGANTLY RESEARCHED . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours.\"--People\"SATISFYING . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways.\"--Entertainment Weekly\"SUSPENSEFUL . . . FIENDISHLY CLEVER.\"--Detroit Free Press About the Author Robert Harris is the author of ten bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -Imperium, Lustrum andDictator - Fatherland,Enigma,Archangel,Pompeii,The Ghost,The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Several of his books have been filmed, most recentlyThe Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used Good | Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Used Good","offer_id":42917291884790,"sku":"9780099992004_F3_A6","price":99.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/514a5UVK9nL.jpg?v=1648200983","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/9780099992004_335","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}