Thriller
Digital Fortress
The National Security Agency's giant code-breaking machine meets an unbreakable code. A cryptographer and her fiance, a linguist sent to Spain, race against time to find a key before the secrets of the agency are exposed.
- First published
- 1998
- Pace
- fast
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a short, quick, techno thriller from before the author's biggest success.
Skip this if you want technical realism; the computing details are very dated and often unlikely.
The feel
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