The Cryptanalyst

by John A. Little

A dying American ex-president makes a death bed appeal that changes his sons life forever. Across the Atlantic Ocean, the longest party in history continues as Ireland celebrates its reunification with the final withdrawal of British influence from the island. After years of patient negotiation, has the peace process worked at last? In North Africa, an Irish computer programmer with a bloody past in the four green fields and an interest in code-breaking, struggles to build a new life with his family. But has he leapt right out of the frying pan and straight into a blazing inferno? Meanwhile, a mentally unbalanced dictator with profound illusions of grandeur plans to fulfill his fantastic destiny and wreak a terrible vengeance on an ungrateful world.

536 pages, Paperback

About the author

Who am I? A retired Computer Manager from the old school of Information Technology, when Mainframes were Mainframes, the Mini was a stunted Mainframe, and the dreaded Personal Computer was but a distant twinkle in the eyes of Gates and Jobs.

As a second career, a writer of detective fiction. Currently working on The Final Tales Of Sherlock Holmes, a four-volume book of detective fiction, containing one novella and fifteen short stories.