Wil-Low Series #1: Operation Downfall
Available for purchase from October 1, 2026
War isn’t won by force — it’s won by minds.
Story: 90 pages
End notes: 40 pages
Total page count: 134 pages
Summer 1945. The war in Europe is over, but Japan refuses to surrender.
When British codebreaker Alan Turing is kidnapped and taken to the Mitsubishi Complex in Nagasaki, he is forced to test the
encryption behind Japan’s newest weapon: towering hydraulic mecha samurai.
Across the Pacific, American scientists Terman, Oppenheimer, Hewlett, and Packard race aboard the experimental submarine
Nautilus to complete a revolutionary quantum computer.
Inside the Nagasaki factory, undercover agent Natsuki Tanaka risks everything to obtain a single control chip—the key to
overriding the mechas' encrypted signals.
A gripping alternate-history thriller where the fate of the world hinges on a computer chip, a handful of spies, and an alliance of history's greatest minds.
Screenplay
A password-protected screenplay version (first-draft version) is available on FilmFreeway.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Alan Turing ... 5
- Chapter 2: Fred Terman ... 16
- Chapter 3: Jiro Horikoshi ... 24
- Chapter 4: Robert Oppenheimer ... 31
- Chapter 5: Korechika Anami ... 36
- Chapter 6: Spies ... 41
- Chapter 7: Missed Contact ... 47
- Chapter 8: The Encoder ... 51
- Chapter 9: The Breakout ... 54
- Chapter 10: One Chance Left ... 58
- Chapter 11: Unmasked ... 61
- Chapter 12: Into the Night ... 65
- Chapter 13: Operation Downfall ... 70
- Chapter 14: The Steel Tide ... 74
- Chapter 15: The Configuration ... 78
- Chapter 16: The Override ... 82
- Chapter 17: Reversal ... 87
- Chapter 18: The Homecoming ... 91
- Background Information ... 95
Book Fragments
Do you want to know what to expect from this book?
Check out these fragments:
- Fragment 1: First five pages of Chapter 1, in which Alan Turing presents his (fictional) Compact Hydraulic Integrated Circuit.
- Fragment 2: Some words about the author and the genre, followed by illustrated end notes, e.g. about real-life hydraulic computers.
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