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Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett. When I asked my mentor to make a recommendation of a well-paced thriller, that's what he gave me. It's technically excellent and enveloping. Truly a gripping read. And if you find Stephenson to be brilliant you'll probably be done with Follett in a bathroom break. I gave up on Cryptonomicon about 12 hours into it 'cuz I just couldn't give a shit.
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Cryptonomicon is a lot of fun if you know/are the sort of people he's writing about, but I'm constantly surprised it gets recommended outside of techy circles. It's like a big collection of in-jokes and history of cryptography and computing with a half-assed thriller plot to sort of tie it together.