A review by davechua
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

4.0

Excellent biography about code breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who was first hired by a millionaire to prove that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays. She later become a code-breaker for the Coast Guard, cracking criminal codes and then of Japanese and Nazi agents. Illuminating.