The Brother & Sister Act: A Tale of Stage, Screen, and Espionage

Orphaned by the murders of their parents, a brother and sister are separated by adoption -- Kenny to Nebraska, and Jane to Chicago... then Hollywood, where a studio accident nearly kills her. What's a movie star to do when her screen idol fiance goes missing in Nazi Germany during World War II? Meanwhile, her math prodigy brother is recruited by British Intelligence (MI6) to crack Hitler's Enigma code at Bletchley Park in England. Hitler never learned about Bletchley Park -- the site of Britain's secret code-breaking operation during WWII. He believed his Enigma ciphers were impenetrable. MI6 operatives and staffers signed the Official Secrets Act, which prevented them from informing their own families. Even Parliament was kept in the dark. Insiders include Admiral Hugh Sinclair (aka 'C') -- the Director of MI6, Alastair Denniston, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, and Professor Kenneth Palmer Kroneldt - a mathematician recruited from the University of Nebraska. Readers get to peek inside the Roosevelt White House, backstage at Radio City Music Hall, a Hollywood soundstage, Neville Chamberlain's and Winston Churchill's Downing Street residence, British Parliament, the workings of British Intelligence, Nazi concentration camps, and the ever-constant rivalry between political and military leaders during WWII. This is a sequel to John R. Downes' second novel, Orphans Song.