[rKarpinski]

I didn't watch more than the first season of the show... but the setting for the novel is an alternate history in the 1960's where FDR had been assassinated in the 30's (failed in our timeline) and the US was isolationist and never entered WW2 until it was conquered by Nazi Germany and Japan.

And he wrote the plot for each character by tossing coins and looking up corresponding passages in the I-Ching