John Harvey Marris is taken to an alleyway and shot as he returns home from from a bar, leaving behind his young son, Samuel, and his wife, Beatriz. Something happens that night, however, and he does not die, but is transported to a different point in time, full of vibrant lights, big band swing, and total war.

Now in an alternate history where the Battle of Midway was lost and the Nazis dropped a nuclear device in Florida, John is thrust headfirst into the fight to stop the Axis Powers from occupying the western coast of the United States, and discover the identity of the one who put him there. But the truth may not be all that it seems to be, and might be much darker than he could have imagined.