Review by Booklist Review
Turing, the brilliant WWII-era codebreaker, whose life veered from heroism to tragedy, is given the graphic-biography treatment by a French writer-artist team. Although he led the group that cracked the Nazis' intelligence codes in the process, he constructed an electronic calculator that was the forerunner of modern computers and is now considered the father of artificial intelligence his homosexuality led authorities to fear his entrapment by the Soviets during the Cold War. Convicted of grave indecency, he escaped prison by agreeing to hormonal treatments to reduce his libido and shortly thereafter committed suicide. The best-known contemporary account of Turing is the acclaimed film The Imitation Game, and while this comics version obviously lacks Benedict Cumberbatch's persuasive performance, it treats Turing's life with greater historical accuracy and delves into the development of his code-breaking machines with more technical detail. Liberge's realistic color drawings are sometimes stiff, but they come alive when depicting Turing's inner life his memories of his childhood and college days and, particularly, his self-loathing thoughts as he grappled with his homosexuality.--Flagg, Gordon Copyright 2016 Booklist
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