num_pages: 624
description: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everythingbeauty wealth and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her rosesbut she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab product of East-End London poverty works the legendary code-breaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Parks few female cryptanalysts. But war loss and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letterthe key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past and now Osla Mab and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings dangerand their true enemycloser...
language: English
title: The Rose Code
publisher: William Morrow