"Washington, D.C., 1958: Grace Feldman is hiding a dangerous secret in her home - not to mention countless others in her head. Grace, a would-be Shakespeare scholar with no mathematical background, learns the art of codebreaking on the fly and becomes one of the country's most potent secret weapons, decrypting intercepted messages during World War I, Prohibition and World War II. From her own father to her mad and mercurial first boss, from Army colonels...

In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them.

Every war requires more than just the efforts of traditional soldiers. Some heroes' stories are not appreciated during their time. This book discusses courageous and innovative people and groups who created - and cracked - seemingly unbreakable codes during times of war.

Based on Dan Brown's international bestselling thriller "The Lost Symbol," the series follows the early adventures of young Ivy League symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find...

National Bestseller

NPR Best Book of the Year

"Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." —The New York Times

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented

...

""Budushchee legche izobresti, chem predskazatʹ", - uveri͡aet mudret͡s. Nepredskazuemoe budushchee vsego chelovechestva zavisit ot uspekha neobychnoĭ troit͡sy. Molodoĭ istorik, oslepitelʹnai͡a temnokozhai͡a zhenshchina-matematik i otstavnoĭ ėlitnyĭ spet͡snazovet͡s vynuzhdeny s riskom dli͡a zhizni razgadyvatʹ odnu iz velichaĭshikh taĭn, pered kotoroĭ okazalisʹ bessilʹny drevnie mistiki, srednevekovye alkhimiki i sovremennyĭ iskusstvennyĭ...