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When Insanity Runs in the CIA

Law professor and bestselling novelist Stephen L. Carter talks about his new thriller Jericho's Fall and the mental instability of spies.

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Here’s the dirty little secret of author book tours: Very early on—usually after the fifth or sixth interview—every author turns into a cyborg. We get asked the same 10 questions, quite reliably, by every single interviewer (the hands-down favorite being “Where do you get your ideas”; I’ve started answering, “Schenectady”)....

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