Enigma Cipher [Paperback]

Andrew Cosby (Author), Michael A Nelson (Author), Greg Scott (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2009

During World War II, the Axis sent messages to its allies via The Enigma Machine. While America and England intercepted these messages and doing so helped win the war, to this day there are still several unsolved messages that have never been cracked. When a professor attending a garage sale buys a book that has a code hidden inside it, he turns it in to the State Department and gives it to his class to break. That night, assassins murder everyone in his class, except for one grad student, who suddenly finds herself in the center of a conspiracy that can change everything...

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up–The enigma was a portable cipher machine that the Nazis used to decrypt coded messages. A professor finds one at an estate sale and assigns his graduate students the task of decoding it. The next day, the man and all but one of his students are dead, murdered by State Department agents who are now ruthlessly pursuing Casey, the remaining student. Can she decode the message and save her life? Fast-paced and filled with violence, this is a quick, action-packed read. The illustrations are drawn in a realistic style that lacks enough detail to make them expressive or striking, but the book should appeal to fans of spy thrillers.–Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NY END

About the Author

Michael Alan Nelson co-wrote X Isle for Boom! Studios and has worked on Zombie Tales and Cthulu Tales anthologies. His Fall of Cthulhu series is Boom!'s top-seller.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: BOOM! Studios (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934506133
• ISBN-13: 978-1934506134
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,512,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)