James Thorne writes spy fiction about the gap between institutional loyalty and institutional truth — and what happens to the people caught in between.
The Mirage Contingency began with a simple question: in a world where artificial intelligence can fabricate any communication, any order, any world leader saying anything — what's left that can't be faked?
The answer turned out to be the premise of a novel.
Thorne is currently finishing the manuscript. The book is set in Moscow. It does not go well for Moscow.