Enigma by Robert Harris
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Book Reviews of Enigma
Book Review: Absolutely corking!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great WW2 novel. It deals with a Tom Jericho, British cryptanalysist, some who deciphers codes, who has suffered a nervous breakdown, and is then re-assigned his post in discovering the code of the U-boat Enigma, a coding maching. When Tom discovers his ex-girlfriend is missing he becomes suspicious and starts looking for clues of her dissapereance. Very hard to explain without giving anything away, so all i have to say is that if you love half-mystery WW2 novels, you will love this novel. Not Jack Higgins WW2 warfare, but a mystery within an enrapturing outside plotBook Review: Excellent thriller with a solid historical background
Summary: 5 Stars
Even better than Fatherland. The details of an extremely interesting and important aspect of the war are woven into a wonderful thriller full of intrigue.
Jericho is refreshingly human especially in his love life and the characterisation no doubt draws some inspiration from the English mathematical genius Alan Turing who many regard as the father of modern computing.
I felt that the finale wasn't upto the rest of the novel though definitely worth turning the pages for.Book Review: Fascinating enigma
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the book. I can't really improve on the other reader reviews, but wanted to mention that this little known part of the war effort was credited by many historians as a decisive factor in winning WWII (and by Harris himself, who uses the failure to break the enigma codes as the reason for the allies to lose the war in his novel "Fatherland"). As such this story has an historical significance which adds to the impact of an already brilliant book.Book Review: Great book - technically good and no loose plot ends
Summary: 5 Stars
With my long background in computers (since '66) and my longtime interest in codes, codebreaking & Enigma, I started this book with some trepidation - as most books of this ilk are poorly written and technically annoying. Not so with this book. It's a genuinely good read with some good plot twists - in fact, you don't know where it's going until the end. Too bad there aren't more good books like this around instead of all the Rambo trash.Book Review: A well written, fast paced, suspense novel.
Summary: 5 Stars
This novel was very fun to read. The characters are well defined and the protaganist is an unlikely hero. The story sheds some light on the monumental task of deciphering secret code and how it could weigh heavily on the cryptanalysts in dawn of the computer age. It starts out a little slow but the pacing picks up nicely as you approach the climax. It's a good read.
Robert Harris gets two-thumbs-up from me.