Part Six: MONGOOSE, 1961-1963: Miami, Washington, Paris. Chapters 1-10 Summary

Harry fast-forwards to the late sixties, talking about the spring of 1969, when Kittredge and he are having an affair and Harlot was still unparalyzed. He discusses Dulles' death in 1968, when he and his wife were having a dinner party and nobody thought anything was wrong until they discovered him dead.

In Chapter 2, Maheu informed the FBI that the wiretap in Vegas had involved the CIA, implicating Cal. Cal is thus going to Japan and hopes to reconnect with Mary. Harry, meanwhile, is helping the CIA move from I-J-K-L to Langley.

During a letter, Cal tells Harry that he and Mary have reunited, and that he is distraught that Ernest Hemingway has committed suicide.

Harry is worried in Chapter 3 about the future of his own career, so he...