Digital Fortress by Brown, Dan - 1998

New York: Saint Martin's, 1998. [1998]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. 372pps. Third Printing (number line down to '3,' in the original first edition format (not the later re-issue). There is bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has slight touches of crinkling at the extremities; the original price (24.95) is intact. A very nice copy of the author's first novel, published in a scarce edition before his success with 'The Da Vinci Code.'

"...'Digital Fortress' transports the reader deep within the most powerful intelligence organization on earth -- the National Security Agency (NSA), an ultra-secret, multibillion-dollar agency, which (until now) less than 3 percent of Americans knew existed. When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival -- a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever..."

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