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Tobias Hill Cryptographer
Faber & Faber 0571218377 / 9780571218370 PAPERBACK Very Good
0571218377 Synopsis nJohn Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codemaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, of a new form of electronic money. As a man, he is admired and distrusted more than most. Tax inspector Anna Moore's talent is for getting clients to talk. She is good at what she does, one of the best. So when the Revenue assigns John Law as Anna's new client, her first task is to discover just what it is he's trying to hide... n nAbout the Author nBorn in London in 1970, Tobias Hill leapt to prominence with two collections of poetry, Year of the Dog, and Midnight in the City of Clocks, published by OUP. Heralded as an 'impressively controlled' collection, Midnight in the City of Clocks offered reportage of Japan and evoked an alien and gritty London landscape. Tobias Hill has won over 100 awards for his writing. His collection of short stories, Skin, first published to considerable acclaim in June 1997, won the 1998 Macmillan/Pen Award and was runner-up for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1998. Tobias Hill's collection of poetry, Zoo, was published in November 1998. His debut novel, Underground, was published by Faber in April 1999 and in paperback in April 2000. It won an Arts Council Writers' Award and also a Betty Trask Award. He has worked as rock critic for the Sunday Telegraph and is a regular reviewer for numerous publications. In 1998 Tobias Hill was made the inaugural resident poet at London Zoo. He is Visiting Fellow at Sussex University. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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