Top US intelligence boffin solves a seven-letter anagram and helps save the world. 'Saved with only seconds to spare,' said the NSA head. 'The code must be a prime number.' She stared at images of Tankado's three fingers. 'We've got two minutes to save the world,' she said. He had no regrets about telling the assassin to kill David. 'He killed the security officer.' But no one believed him and he died a nasty death. But I've failed and now all America's secrets are going to be available online unless we get this code.' I was trying to add a mutation that would allow us to read every secret in the world. She looked up to see Greg Hales kill a security officer. Of course, she thought, they're anagrams of one another. Susan's superfast decryption programme suggested Tankado and NDAKOTA had the same email. 'Because this book was published in the US in 1998 and it's only getting an outing in the UK to cash in on The Da Vinci Code.' 'TRANSLTR has already saved America from two terrorist attacks,' she replied. 'It's not right we should be able to spy on ordinary Americans,' he said. Greg Hales entered the NSA inner sanctum. The NSA uses a cryptographer, SusanFletchers, to help figure out what is wrong. Worse still, the ring was a red herring: there was no code. Dan Brown's book Digitial Fortress is a really good book This story is about a code-breaking machine at the NSA that comes across a code it cannot break which results in lots of problems for all the people involved. Now Tankado was dead, the businessman and the prostitute who had taken the ring were dead, the American punk who had bought the ring off the prostitute was dead, and the assassin was after him. A technothriller, less improbable than some, involving computers, cryptography, and government paranoia. He hadn't told Susan that Strathmore had sent him to Spain to get the code from Tankado's ring. I need you to trace his untraceable email address.'ĭavid was having a bad day. He has a partner called NDAKOTA who has the pass code. 'Our ex-employee Tankado has created an algorithmal code TRANSLTR can't decipher. Fewer still have heard of TRANSLTR, the world's most powerful computer, buried deep underground in NSA headquarters.

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