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A review by honeyreads1066
Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception by Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Mike Floyd
3.0
Rating: 2.7
When I saw three former CIA officer's, I wasn't sure what to think. The CIA isn't exactly an institution that I was keen about but this was not as bad as it could be.
I came into this, thinking it was a book about spying the lies and deception of someone words and behaviour which essentially it was however aside from dismissing a few myths about the behaviour I feel like I haven't learnt much.
While I understand that there has to be a certain level of 'confidentiality' the anecdotes were quite frankly boring. One of the first detailed how one of the agents had thought a man was lying when he got up to pray but then 'realised' that the man was physically getting up because he is Muslim and he's praying towards Mecca and not signalling something to the opposition.
Other sections would have been brilliant for any helicopter parent who would like to know every detail of their children's lives which anecdotes as to how the agents have done so with the lives of their children.
The bit I probably hated the most was that there was an entire interview with Anthony Weiner, where they first laid out the entire interview to read and then laid it out again but now showing all the deceptive indicators. It was just a long section of nothing they could have summarised within a page or two.
On the plus side, the book did give some interesting techniques and ways of questioning so I did learn something throughout the entire book.
I would not recommend this book beacause I feel you can get all this information through an article somewhere else. The length of this book felt like a waste of time.
When I saw three former CIA officer's, I wasn't sure what to think. The CIA isn't exactly an institution that I was keen about but this was not as bad as it could be.
I came into this, thinking it was a book about spying the lies and deception of someone words and behaviour which essentially it was however aside from dismissing a few myths about the behaviour I feel like I haven't learnt much.
While I understand that there has to be a certain level of 'confidentiality' the anecdotes were quite frankly boring. One of the first detailed how one of the agents had thought a man was lying when he got up to pray but then 'realised' that the man was physically getting up because he is Muslim and he's praying towards Mecca and not signalling something to the opposition.
Other sections would have been brilliant for any helicopter parent who would like to know every detail of their children's lives which anecdotes as to how the agents have done so with the lives of their children.
The bit I probably hated the most was that there was an entire interview with Anthony Weiner, where they first laid out the entire interview to read and then laid it out again but now showing all the deceptive indicators. It was just a long section of nothing they could have summarised within a page or two.
On the plus side, the book did give some interesting techniques and ways of questioning so I did learn something throughout the entire book.
I would not recommend this book beacause I feel you can get all this information through an article somewhere else. The length of this book felt like a waste of time.