This is a historical novel. The names, places and events are all true. Well, most of them really happened where and when the text describes. A certain amount of literary license has been applied to the actual dialogue of the Secret Chiefs and the location of their covert meetings. Any similarity with historical persons, places and scenarios is, for the most part, neither coincidental nor imaginary. You will have to decide which parts are true, and which parts are licensed for satire and/or metaphysical speculation. The author has made it easy for the reader to differentiate the distinction, but anyone might get caught up in the drama and be unable to tell when veracity or fantasy are depicted.