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In the book’s opening pages, Fagone, a journalist now at the San Francisco Chronicle, describes how he came upon a trove of Friedman’s papers in a Virginia library that contained not only technical notes, but “love letters. The book has everything: thrills, chills, kills, love, crypto, and a hopeful sense that a nearly forgotten American genius, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, is finally being given her due. Over the course of its hundreds of pages, The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone is damned-near impossible to put down. Synopsis The Woman Who Smashed Codes, released on September 26, 2017, is the riveting story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a largely forgotten woman who helped propel the United States into defeating its enemies with not only brawn, but brains as well.I’ve never read such a gripping book about spies that opens with the hopeful words: “This is a love story.”