- Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Cryptography, Fiction
England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert Harris
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- BCA, Pocket, Ivy Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780679765059
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