BlogaBook: Thrillers - Codes and Ciphers

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Thrillers - Codes and Ciphers

Try these International Thrillers that all have to do with codes and ciphers:

The Venona Cable : a thriller by Brent Ghelfi
"Russian agent and criminal Alexei Volkovoy pays an action-packed visit to theU.S. to uncover secrets of the infamous Venona cables and to attempt to clear his family name."
Nemesis by Bill Napier
The "secret to saving the world is hidden in a 17th Latin century manuscript that has gone mysteriously missing."
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
Trying to figure out what really happened during a failed assassination on the Chief Executive takes an ex-presidential aide back to a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, mysterious facts buried in Masonic history, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson.
The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams
"Daniel Knox's first love is archaeology, more specifically Alexander the Great. In this adventure, he competes with rival archaeologists, Egyptian officials, and Macedonian nationalists in the hunt for one of the greatest archaeological prizes in the world."

Labels: Code and cipher stories, Thrillers

1 Comments:

At September 10, 2009 5:35 PM , Liz said...: Hey, how funny. I was at our library this afternoon (picking up a book someone recommended on a blog last week! I love that -- plus a "from the Kitchen of Julia Child," as I was inspired by the recent movie) and came across a display of "Books with Bytes." Obviously all had to do with computers. So I patiently waited inline (and believe me, time has been in short supply today) to recommend the librarian find a Jeffrey Deaver book, called "The Blue Nowhere," (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671042262/stopyourekilling). It's a great code/ciphers thriller.

My current thriller, Three Kisses, isn't "The Blue Nowhere," but as 9/11 is tomorrow, and this thriller is based, so to speak on actual current events, with al Qaeda and international terrorism and the Midle East, etc., I wanted to recommend it. It made reading and understanding current geopolitical events much more understandable and enjoyable.