The issues of World War II are evident in Blood and Honor; indeed, it does not attempt to bridge time to make a 1990s point, but immerses itself in a 1940s and World War II ethos and mind set. The complex of morality issues surrounding the very existence of Nazism is evident from the beginning of the novel, with the revelation of a Nazi scheme to ransom Jews from Auschwitz and then to use that money to establish a safe haven for Nazis in Argentina after the war. The amorality of this scheme is not shown through demonizing the characters completely, as might be done elsewhere, but by presenting them as semi-corporate functionaries.

These functionaries are also responsible for the death of Cletus Frade's Argentinean father, a retired colonel in the Argentinean army who was suspected (rightly) of being pro-Allied in his sympathy. This death leads...