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Tobias
Hill's third novel, The Cryptographer, draws the reader into the
year 2012 where money is no longer hard currency, but electronic
units called Soft Gold.
Soft
Gold is produced by Soft Mark, an international company responsible
for the safe encrypting of personal accounts into an unbreakable
code. Once safely encrypted currency is spent worldwide using a
money card in place of notes and coins.
Having
created the world's first electronic currency, John Law, owner of
Soft Mark is the world's first quadrillionaire. Mysterious, charming
and with something to hide, it is tax inspector Anna Moore's job
to find out just what is behind Law's wry smile and calm demeanour.
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Ensnared
into the charismatic and seductive world of limitless money, sprawling
mansions, and dark secrets, Anna soon becomes thrust into the centre
of John Law's life. The impact that John Law has on Anna, and eventually
the world, is the beauty of the novel's twists and its anticipated
turns.
Like
Hill's other novels, the characters and story line spans continents
and barren islands, taking us to a part of the world that Hill so
desperately wants to share. Unusual through to the end, Hill provides
a plot and character that keeps the reader gripped until the end.
Once
again, in The Cryptographer, Hill uses his superb imagination to
write an unusual and different read. He paints characters in full
colour allowing us to fully understand their predicament or situation,
making and unreal, imagined world seem vividly real.
Mary
Minshull
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