Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Spy the Lie / Houston, Philip / 230 pages

This was a fascinating book about detecting when people are lying.  It is actually written by three authors and a writer.  The three have backgrounds in the CIA and have spent years interviewing "clients".  They have developed a method of questioning and observing that will help to detect when someone is lying.  (NO, they did not waterboard anyone for the book)

They do give many helpful tips like how to question your teenager about drugs/alcohol or how to interview a potential child care giver.  They also provide insightful commentary on OJ Simpson's interview with the detective and what went wrong and end with a transcript commentary of an interview with Sandusky by Bob Costas.

I wish they had done FBI Robert Hanssen.  Oh well, it was still a very good book with a lot of information.  (Really, I'm not lying.)

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