> That book has even worse pretentions of truth, as it claims to be non-fiction, but at least it doesn't have albino assassins and cryptanalists who can't solve simple anagrams.

So sort of like the opposite of drek like "Mercury Rising," which, if you (understandably) don't remember that, is about an autistic kid who can glance at a 128-bit public key cypher and penetrate it instantly. Then the government tries to kill him. We're all supposed to ignore the fact that, assuming it WERE possible for Rain Boy to look at that and just crack it instantly, killing him makes less sense than learning what his trick is.