Index

Every Washington book has an index in the back, and everyone in town flips to it first. Here is Hill Mole's. Numbers are entry numbers, as shown at the top of each entry, and each one links to its entry. Bold numbers under a place are entries set there. People in the novel go by initials. See also the glossary.

0–9

• 9/11 and the war on terror, 55, 63, 232, 234, 248, 249

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A

• scene: acid on the Mall with W. and R., 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
• addiction and the lab rat, 33, 57, 74, 91, 134, 231
• Afghanistan, 211, 227, 229, 233, 234, 235, 236, 239, 240, 241, 243, 246, 249, 285, 288
• Alexandria, Virginia, 80
• ants, hives, and emergent systems, 19, 21, 22, 46, 53, 58, 85, 131
• plot: applying to the intelligence service, 154
• Arlington, Virginia, 163, 192

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B

• B. (a former girlfriend), 72
• Babbitt, Ashli, 307
• Baudelaire, Charles, 144, 150
• plot: becoming privy to the patterns, 5, 16, 24
• Bell, Art, 290
• Berlin, 25, 104, 143, 147, 159, 226, 231
• Berlusconi, Silvio, 183
• Bernays, Edward, 144, 185
• Biden, Joe, 183, 193, 240, 286
• scene: bike messenger days in Washington, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
• bin Laden, Osama, 234
• blowback and unintended consequences, 50, 137, 184, 186, 198, 208, 260
• Bolsonaro, Jair, 215
• Bond, James, 97, 103, 104, 148, 160
• Bush, George W., 150, 193, 240

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C

• C. (a friend from McLean), 131
• Callicles, 289
• camouflage and hiding in plain sight, 50, 51, 62, 70, 71, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 114, 134, 146, 157, 160, 161, 258
• Capitol Hill, 9, 12, 94, 104, 110, 223, 307
• Carter, Jimmy, 150
• Charlie (the Ranger), 33, 160
• Chomsky, Noam, 185
• CIA, 131, 148, 159, 160
• Clinton, Bill, 60, 150
• Clinton, Hillary, 193
• era: college in Washington, 9, 10, 11, 12, 66, 67, 68, 69, 104
• Columbus, Christopher, 240
• Cortés, Hernán, 240
• COVID-19, 86, 187, 188, 189, 202, 228, 251, 256, 273, 284
• Crichton, Michael, 186

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D

• Derwinski, Ed, 221
• DIA, 148, 159
• doctors as spies, 59, 117, 159, 231, 256
• drinking, 5, 6, 7, 40, 42, 47, 78, 80, 82, 83, 88, 101, 128, 142, 145, 149, 153, 156, 157, 198

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E

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 50, 51
• Epstein, Jeffrey, 153

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F

• FBI, 148
• fear and panic, 4, 9, 47, 63, 96, 101, 112, 119, 138, 142, 143, 147, 155, 156, 157, 172, 189, 213, 241, 244, 267
• scene: flying over Russia to Kathmandu, 1990, 156
• free speech and censorship, 180, 198, 230, 254, 259, 296, 297
• Freemasonry, 106
• Freud, Sigmund, 144, 185

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G

• Germany, 104, 143, 144, 147, 156, 159, 183, 215, 226, 231, 241, 279, 286, 293
• Giffords, Gabby, 225, 304
• Godwin, Mike (Godwin's law), 179, 183
• Goebbels, Joseph, 206
• Gorbachev, Mikhail, 221
• Gore, Al, 193
• era: growing up in Hawaii, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 46, 48, 180
• guns and self-defense, 37, 38, 138, 149, 153, 158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 201, 212, 214, 223, 225, 232, 254, 262, 265, 288, 304, 305, 306, 309

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H

• Harris, Kamala, 183
• Hawaii, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 44, 46, 87, 104, 159, 180
• Hitler, Adolf, 144, 176, 179, 183, 215, 244, 252, 283
• Huxley, Aldous, 74

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I

• Indiana Jones, 116
• Ira and Ruth, 117

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J

• Jana and Carrie, 45
• January 6, 212, 214, 223, 244, 249, 307
• Jesus, 116, 176, 201, 285
• JROTC and the Rangers, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 47, 188
• scene: JROTC war games in Hawaii, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39

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K

• Kathmandu and Nepal, 44, 47, 156, 285
• Kavanaugh, Brett, 308
• Khrushchev, Nikita, 278
• Kipling, Rudyard, 233

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L

• L. (the painter friend), 65
• Langley and McLean, 131, 161
• Lenin, Vladimir, 221
• Lippmann, Walter, 185
• loneliness, 80, 134, 157, 161
• Luntz, Frank, 309

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M

• M., also known as J., 79, 82
• Malcolm X, 176
• Mao Zedong, 280
• Mata Hari, 128
• McCarthy, Joseph (McCarthyism), 155, 156
• Mendez, Jonna, 160
• moles, handlers, and cover stories, 38, 78, 82, 106, 109, 112, 113, 126, 127, 128, 134, 141, 146, 149, 150, 156, 159, 161
• scene: moving to Berlin, 143
• Mussolini, Benito, 183

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N

• the narrator's father, 5, 174
• the narrator's mother, 87
• NATO, 37, 293
• Nazis and Hitler comparisons, 144, 155, 176, 179, 180, 183, 215, 230, 231, 232, 241, 244, 252, 283
• NPR, 236, 249

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O

• Obama, Barack, 179, 240
• Orwell, George, 138
• Otto Helm, 87

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P

• patience, 107, 108, 109, 117, 136, 155, 288, 293
• pattern recognition, 5, 23, 38, 64, 68, 75, 77, 86, 89, 90, 105, 106, 115, 146, 147, 161
• Pelosi, Nancy, 223
• Pence, Mike, 215
• Phillips, Howard, 221
• photography, 45, 49, 50, 51, 67, 68, 94, 98, 114, 133, 148, 173
• Pizarro, Francisco, 240
• Plato, 271
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 132
• Pope Alexander VI, 240
• propaganda and public relations, 66, 97, 144, 145, 155, 173, 175, 176, 185, 203, 221, 242, 292, 293, 294
• Putin, Vladimir, 161, 278, 285, 288, 293

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R

• R. (a college chum), 66, 68, 69, 70, 71
• race and racism, 147, 181, 201, 205, 207, 216, 227, 252, 266, 283
• Reagan, Nancy, 57
• Reagan, Ronald, 57, 146, 150, 215, 221, 283
• Rogan, Joe, 282
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., 156
• Russia and the Soviet Union, 38, 112, 114, 145, 155, 156, 161, 221, 241, 279, 285, 286, 287, 288, 293, 294, 299

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S

• Safire, William, 221
• Sagan, Carl, 180
• scene: sailing from Acapulco to Marina del Rey, 87, 88
• Saint Petersburg, 47, 285
• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 203, 221
• Scholz, Olaf, 286
• Secret Service, 2, 148, 153
• secrets, 17, 35, 36, 54, 66, 80, 99, 105, 106, 113, 115, 125, 128, 131, 132, 134, 139, 140, 143, 147, 149, 153, 154, 161, 174, 203, 214, 274
• sex, seduction, and infidelity, 72, 83, 96, 117, 125, 128, 139, 140, 141, 146, 251
• Stalin, Joseph, 156, 221, 280
• Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 134
• Sun Tzu, 241
• Sung, Jennifer, 253
• surveillance, 114, 121, 137, 173, 268

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T

• era: the Berlin years, 143, 147, 226, 231
• plot: the client who vanished, 145
• scene: the dive bar in Alexandria, 80, 81
• plot: the documents on the USB dongle, 41
• plot: the filament in W.'s watch, 26, 27
• plot: the interrogation and the panic attack, 118, 119
• plot: the last word, it's all fancy dress, 161
• scene: the oligarch client who disappeared, 145
• plot: the opening confession, a dupe and a fool, 1, 2, 3
• scene: the panic attack and the paper sack, 118, 119
• scene: the recruitment day near Dulles, 154
• plot: the recurring dream, 120
• scene: the strip club, 83
• Tito, Josip Broz, 221
• Treasury Department, 2, 60
• Trump, Donald, 179, 182, 183, 186, 190, 193, 198, 204, 213, 214, 215, 219, 220, 240, 242, 244, 249, 260, 308

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U

• Ukraine, 286, 291, 293, 294

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V

• Vonnegut, Kurt, 116

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W

• W. (the narrator's best friend), 25, 26, 49, 60, 66, 68, 69, 87, 94, 104, 143
• plot: W. arranges the move to Berlin, 143
• scene: W.'s visit and the dive watch, 25, 26, 27, 28
• plot: wanting to go back to sleep, 60, 61, 62, 64, 75, 76
• Washington, DC, 1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 54, 66, 92, 104, 110, 131, 135, 143, 147, 148, 149, 154, 155, 159, 160, 192
• Wellesley, Arthur, 113
• World Bank, 60, 154, 208
• Wowereit, Klaus, 147

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Z

• Zack's (the bar), 40, 41, 42, 92

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Á

• Áder, János, 215

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