Allusions/references To Actual History, Geography and Current Science
- Esus, known in this novel as the god of woodland and water, was a Gaulish god known from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan's Bellum civile.
- The World Trade Center in New York, which was one of the foci of the September 11, 2001 attacks is referred to (p.240) as the home of the Nast Cabal's New York Office:
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- "Until last month, the Nasts' New York office was in the World Trade Center."
- "Did they lose-?"
- "Twenty-seven people, out of a staff of thirty-five..."
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