cryptographers

Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.

"A nonfiction chronicle of the courageous efforts of remarkable young women recruited by the US government to crack German and Japanese military codes during World War II."--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the lives of Elizebeth Friedman and her husband, William F. Friedman, cryptographers who helped the United States government during the early and mid-twentieth century, and looks at the history of code-breaking.

"Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement--the unveiling of a discovery that 'will change the face of science forever.' The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon's first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough--one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence"--Jacket flap of trade version.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

Recalls the history of the 10,000 American women who served in the U.S. Army and Navy as code breakers during World War II.

Special agent Maggie Hope travels to American with Winston Churchill posing as his typist while he meets with President Roosevelt. When one of the First Lady's aides is murdered and Mrs. Roosevelt is implicated in the crime, Maggie employs her skills at code breaking and espionage to figure out who would target Mrs. Roosevelt and why, but what Maggie uncovers is a shocking conspiracy that could jeopardize American support for the war.

Recalls the history of the 10,000 American women who served in the U.S. Army and Navy as code breakers during World War II.

"American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the Ripper--and who targets female intelligence agents...like Maggie"--Provided by publisher.