Cryptographer by Tobias Hill

Cryptographer by Tobias Hill

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John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codebreaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire. When tax inspector Anna Moore is assigned Law as a new client, her first task is to discover just what he is trying to hide.

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Cryptographer by Tobias Hill

People like to think that money and love are opposites. John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codemaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, of a new form of electronic money. As a man, he is admired and distrusted more than most. Tax inspector Anna Moore's talent is for getting clients to talk. She is good at what she does, one of the best. So when the Revenue assigns John Law as Anna's new client, her first task is to discover just what it is he's trying to hide...
Tobias Hill has published three award-winning collections of poetry. Skin, a collection of stories won the PEN/Macmillan Award for Fiction. Underground, his first novel, was published to great acclaim in 1999. A former poet in residence at London Zoo, Tobias Hill is a Visiting Fellow at Sussex University.
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ISBN 13 9780571218363
ISBN 10 0571218369
Title Cryptographer
Author Tobias Hill
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2003-08-07
Number of pages 272
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