Osla is a beautiful, vivacious ex-debutante whose finishing school German is put to use translating decoded intelligence from German to English. Mab is an ambitious, sharp-witted East Ender recruited from a secretarial pool to operate and maintain the famous decoding machines. The best and brightest minds in England - many of them women - were sent to work there in secrecy to break the supposedly unbreakable Axis military codes, and they succeeded brilliantly.Ī: I love all three of my heroines! They’re all based closely on real women or composites of real women, and they represent the range of roles women could play in the Bletchley Park codebreaking process. Quinn - whose previous novels include “The Alice Network,” “The Huntress” and the “Empress of Rome Saga” series - lives in San Diego with her husband and three rescue dogs.Ī: Bletchley Park is the isolated English country house that, during World War II, became the intelligence hub of Great Britain. There, codebreakers must solve complex military codes, survive the pressures of secrecy and outwit a Soviet spy who tries to tear apart friendships. Quinn’s newest novel, “The Rose Code,” explores the dynamics during World War II at Bletchley Park in England. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Del Mar Times.
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