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Thanks SP! 

Actually it sounds better than the novel. The book is more a 'slice of life' type of thing about living under Axis control rather than a novel with a plot. There aren't any movers or shakers in it. Just normal people trying to survive. Which is ok of course but just not that exciting.

You've got an antiques dealer in San Fran dealing with Japanese who are buying up American history left and right- the reverse of Allied troops buying up 500 year old samurai swords to bring back to hang on the living room wall in real history. There's an Italian truck driver dealing with bigotry from the former Allies that hate him for fighting for the enemy and contempt from the Japanese and Germans who consider the Italians dead weight in the war. And a 'Swedish' businessman who's actually an anti-National Socialist German in disguise and on the lam. 

There's mention here and there about growing tensions between the Empire and the Reich but we don't get to see any of it. It's a neat novel but frankly there's just no real plot as I remember other than just trying to get by day to day. Guess I need to give the show a shot, it sounds much better than the ads. 

 

Based off what you have said, it’s sounds like they have fleshed out that premise quite a bit. The Businessman/partymember on the lam  and the San Francisco antiques dealer have both recently been introduced, but are more sub plots at this point than anything else. The central non occupying powers characters are boyfriend/girlfriend in San Francisco. Like you said, they start out just trying to get by but events are pulling them in. As for the New York City side, it goes along like occupied Europe in WWII. The SS mentality is quite chilling to see in action. Especially when you think that it is on American territory. I don’t want to give anything away that I’ve seen so far. No sign yet of any Italian truck driver.

Thanks SP! I'll have to give this a go sometime. I've got a Netflix queue of over a hundred films and I'm still on season three of my Magnum PI DVD collection so it might be awhile but I'll keep it in mind.