★ Reprinted!
★ 20+ years of deception-detection expertise from Evgeny Spiryasa, founder of Russia’s first state-certified non-instrumental lie-detection school.
★ A practical guide for anyone who wants to recognise lies, confront them, and live with the truth—easily and confidently.
★ Based on thousands of studies and real-life experiments, the book teaches scientifically grounded, tool-free lie-detection skills and helps readers overcome their own urge to lie.
★ Essential for psychologists, therapists, polygraph specialists, lawyers, law-enforcement officers, HR professionals, business negotiators, project managers and investigators.
★ High practical value for business negotiations, corporate leadership and family communication.

People lie in every possible situation and for every possible reason. If we could see the truth in time and avoid being misled, many problems would simply disappear. This book makes deception rarer and happiness more common. Drawing on thousands of studies, real experiments and data that any social psychologist or psychotherapist would envy, it analyses human behavioural strategies and presents teaching materials and standards for detecting lies. Written in clear language and free of jargon, it offers practical advice and self-training exercises. After working through the tasks and training plans you will gradually learn to distinguish truth from falsehood and, equally important, to overcome your own tendency to lie, cope with the truth and reduce stress.
The book is for everyone who wants to be free, face lies, speak the truth with ease and live happily with it. It will also interest professionals who wish to raise their level of expertise and learn new deception-detection skills.

Evgeny Spiryasa – Russia’s master lie-catcher. Founder of the Russian National Institute of Non-Instrumental Lie Detection. Pioneer in “people-reading” and lie detection in Russia. His school inherits and develops the traditions of the legendary 30th Laboratory of the KGB, FSB and Ministry of the Interior.
Training provider for the FSB, the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Federal Bailiff Service. Former combat & special-forces trainer for the Ministry of the Interior. Since 1993 he has advised state and non-state security bodies and authored psychological and polygraph-training manuals.
For 23 years he has predicted human behaviour in complex and extreme situations, including hostage crises and deception scenarios. His work is comparable to that of American psychologist Paul Ekman (the inspiration for the TV series “Lie to Me”). Spiryasa is both a committed follower of Ekman—holding that Ekman’s work is indispensable—and a sharp critic of some of Ekman’s conclusions, basing his objections on extensive research and field tests.
A frequent guest on television and in the press, he is a top-level expert in non-verbal behaviour, micro-expressions, business negotiations, HR and investment due-diligence. Banks and major corporations hire him for training and negotiation coaching. Tens of thousands of students in Russia and abroad follow his courses.
Author of the bestsellers “I See Through You: How to Read People” and “Don’t Lie to Me: The Psychology of Lies and Deception”, both reprinted many times. His new book “Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Technologies and Models of Hidden Influence and Protection” is scheduled for release this year.