Criptonomicón

A standalone novel by Neal Stephenson that interweaves two timelines: World War II Allied codebreakers working to crack, and conceal the cracking of, Axis ciphers, and a group of 1990s entrepreneurs building a data haven for secure, anonymous banking. Cryptonomicon follows cryptography, computing and the control of information across fifty years and two generations of the same families. It is not part of a series; Stephenson's later Baroque Cycle trilogy explores the deep history of some of the same characters but is a separate, unrelated set of books.