A vast novel of the CIA, and a deep look into the depths of the American soul Hugh Tremont Montague - codename HARLOT- is one of the grand old men of the CIA, a man obsessed, and barely, but not quite, the WASP patrician he seems The narrator is Harry Hubbard, son of one of the founding fathers of the CIA and living in the shadow of both men, though he does not sense the core of madness from which Harlot's remarkable energies emanate