You've been in both international crime worlds and spy stories. Do you feel like, i love existing in this world? Or do you reach a point w you're really happy that i can just go back to my ordinary life?" I'm drawn into their minds, i guess," he says of his subjects. "I want to enter the minds of these people"
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer for National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. His new podcast is Chameleon: Scam Likely.
“I want a crumpled piece of paper where there are enough ridges and valleys and lines for me to be able to navigate, and they have to be authentic. And then of course the best stories among them will have surprise and intrigue, and things that are completely unexpected happen somewhere along the way. But it's hard to anticipate all of that. You still have to have a little bit of faith.”
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