

executive and US Army officer, who eventually founds the NSA and becomes a key policy maker for US involvement in the Second Indochina War. Earl Comstock, a former Electrical Till Corp.He seems to know more about the mysterious Societas Eruditorum than any non-member. Rudolf "Rudy" von Hacklheber, a non-Nazi German mathematician and cryptographer, who spent time attending Princeton University, where he had a romantic relationship with Alan Turing and befriended Waterhouse.Günter Bischoff, a Kapitänleutnant in the Kriegsmarine, who commands a U-boat for much of the story, and later takes command of a new, advanced submarine fueled with hydrogen peroxide.


Neal Stephenson Characters World War II storyline Fictional characters
