Every once in a while as I'm reading a book it becomes clear that, for some reason or confluence of reasons, the text in question would make the perfect movie. This perhaps implies a poverty of my own imagination — a disturbing willingness to reduce codices to raw materials for celluloid — but I make do. One such book is Jason Fagone's "The Woman Who Smashed Codes," a fascinating combination of love story, spy novel and war tale, all of it true, most of it perfect for [...]
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