image copyright Mark Ulriksen/The New Yorker By Francine Mathews Fifteen years ago, I was drafting a spy novel entitled Blown. It was my second novel about Caroline “Mad Dog” Carmichael, a CIA terrorism analyst very much like myself, who was combatting neo-Nazis at home and abroad. The draft wasn’t going well. I was way past … Continue reading THE CON ARTIST: JAMES HOGUE’S BRILLIANT GAME