So a kid gets ahold of a barely cryptic business card walks right into what ends up being a major hub for some kind of American resistance, then gets entrusted with a hugely important mission within hours. No vetting, no training, no introduction to the organization. Predictably the kid's a spy, probably the son of the American SS/Gestapo officer.
I get that any resistance to the Nazis would be difficult to coordinate effectively and would be desperate for manpower, but come on..... based on the feats the resistance in Europe accomplished within just a few short years, there's no way a resistance organization that survived 20 years after the war would be so sloppy and incompetent.
Similarly, a woman whose sister is murdered in front of her for wandering out in the open past curfew (why would she do that??) just hops on a bus with the dreaded "film" in her bag and cruises over to the neutral zone (why is there any traffic permitted back and forth between this DMZ anyway?). She immediately runs into the Nazi spy kid in the same tiny town in the middle of this vast territory, and they strike up some kind of relationship. Then she just kind of wanders around with no extra clothes or food and no place to stay, gets a job, and immediately entrusts something her sister died for to an old guy with a Bible. No way in hell.
I admit I probably missed something here.....
Also, kudos to the author for assuming the proverbial "flyover states" are such a
hole, not even all-powerful invaders would want them, and would instead just sort of....leave them to themselves.
....All this from the guy whose stories inspired Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report.....