Turing's delirium
By: Edmundo Paz Soldán ; translated by Lisa Carter.
Contributors: Carter, Lisa.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780618541393
Description: "The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber's latest target: Kandinsky, a "cyberhacktivist" leader who is staging a war against both the government and the country's transnational corporations as part of an antiglobalization revolution. As Turing finds himself drawn into a web of murder, intrigue, and deception, he begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once believed."--Publisher's website.

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