The Code Book ... A must read!

For those of you who are fascinated by the unknown, by good riddles, puzzles, problems and cryptics, The Code Book by Simon Singh is a must read!

This book is a dedication to the art of code making and code breaking over the last 4000 years. It covers the primitive alphabetic ciphers to the complex ones used during the renaisance period. The most rivetting account for me however, was the entire story of the two world wars and how they were pretty much dictated by the code making and code breaking skills of the two fronts. This was an angle previously unknown to me, and it suddenly made it obvious that as we move forward into the information age, conventional weapons are suddenly going to become redundant. If someone has cutting edge information to go by, a hand grenade can do more damage than a nuclear warhead!

At the end of the book, there are 10 cryptics for you to solve, arranged from very easy to very difficult. Its fun to try out code breaking for yourself!