Word: nye
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...sounding far-fetched. But as time went on and details emerged that Pakistan in fact had given aid to Iran’s nuclear program, “I noticed from the headlines that it’s not so far-fetched at all,” Nye says. “For a while I was worried that fact might overcome the fiction...
Like his protagonist—a career academic who got involved in national politics—Nye brings a new and luminous perspective to this type of fiction. By turning from his academic writings (exemplified by his similarly themed, but much differently constructed Soft Power: the Means to Success in World Politics) to a novel he has tried to take a different angle on Washington dealings...
...Nye says the form allowed for a different mode of exploration of politics. “I felt I could capture another dimension of power through fiction,” he says. “Academic writing tends to generalize, while fiction tries to particularize. It tries to use one image to illuminate the larger truth...
...move to fiction, though drastic, seemed natural to Nye. “It’s always fun to tell a story, and it also allowed me to use the other side of the brain,” he says. “Sometimes I would work on an academic book during the day and turn to fiction in the evening for relaxation...
...Perhaps Nye was aided by his intimate familiarity with the book’s material. While he stops short of declaring that the protagonist is directly based on himself, he did say that Peter Cutler grew out of experience he had at the State and Defense Departments and in the intelligence community...