

They find out that 3 is the code to stop Digital Fortress and that is the end of the story. She informs the prime director, and with the help of a team of technicians she solves the clues left behind by Tankado. In the end it turns out that Susan’s boss is the bad guy, and after killing two of his employees he gets killed himself. In the end it turns out that three is the code they need to enter to stop Digital Fortress. Then Tankado is murdered and as a last action he holds his hand up, a hand with three fingers. Meanwhile Susan’s fiancée David is sent to Spain by the director of the NSA to try and find Ensei Tankado and get the code from him, the code is known to be on Tankado’s ring. Susan tries to crack the code and hopes to sop Digital Fortress. The only way to stop Digital Fortress is to enter another code, which only Tankado knows. If that happens everybody can see the secrets of the NSA, which would be a great threat for the USA. It turns out that an ex-employee Ensei Tankado wants to destroy the NSA by making digital fortress (which he invented) public. One day Susan gets called to work, because TRANSLTR seems to be unable to crack a certain code, digital fortress. The NSA has a brilliant computer called TRANSLTR, which is very fast and can break every code.

Plot: Susan Fletcher is a brilliant code breaker who works for the American National Security Agency (NSA). The story takes place around the time it was written, or in the near future. Setting: The story takes place in the USA and in Spain, a small part takes place in Japan. Year: Digital fortress was written in 1998, and my edition was published in 2004
