The Odyssey
written by Homer

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters. The first group is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, and disillusioned Axis military and intelligence figures whom they encounter. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.

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As George develops a crush on Brennan, the cute, but dim-witted intern at her temp agency, Happy Time, everyone, including Delores, discourages her from allowing it to blossom into anything more. Meanwhile, Rube accompany's Mason to his assignment to collect a soul at a kid's birthday party which devastates him. Elsewhere, Joy and Clancy decide to divorce after she finds out that he has been cheating on her with his female college students. Also, Roxy decides to quit her meter maid job and join the police academy to become a real cop after her latest reap, and Daisy steals a silver cross necklace from Roxy's latest victim.