They enter into a contract with Epiphyte Corporation, for whom Randy Waterhouse works. Doug Shaftoe and his daughter Amy run a marine salvage company in the Philippines. Many years later, their children and grandchildren come together and meet some of the World War II survivors.
He was a friend of the Japanese Goto Dengo, who designed a huge vault in the Philippines where gold from various countries was hidden. Waterhouse was with the supersecret Detachment 2702 to which Bobby Shaftoe was asigned. During the war, von Hacklheber was a top cryptologist for Germany, and Turing and Waterhouse were the top cryptologists for the Allies. Turing returned to England and von Hacklheber to Germany when they finished their academic work. There were three students at Princeton before the war, Lawrence Waterhouse, Alan Turing and Rudy von Hacklheber. The novel is concerned with several generations of math geniuses and computer whizzes, who are all tied together through the gold the Axis powers buried in the Philippines near the end of World War II. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is a hilarious and informative book about code breaking and cryptology.
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