The backdrop for this the fiction book is a subject and reality that is far from fiction. The story is of two immigrants from pre Second World War Germany that became involved in matters concerning the Nazi party and the remnants of that party. The objective of the two was to try to rectify the disgrace of what happened to the Nazis, post-world war two. For all of the atrocities performed by the Nazi Party under Adolph Hitler, only a few of the highest ranking Nazis that were in Germany were prosecuted. The remaining ninety percent were not. They successfully hid in Germany or escaped to a few foreign countries. Many were just ignored or incorporated into other countries as professionals in their trade. Something to bear in mind is that Hitler didn't personally execute tens of thousands and few of the SS officers personally did. It was the common German soldier that lined people up and shot them by the tens of thousands. After the war they just blended into the German society with no punishment whatsoever. In 1945, the German atrocities in Eastern Europe were replaced by Russian atrocities.