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A note from Jef:

So thanks for checking out my blog, and for your interest in my book, Conquering Deception©—How to Know What Anyone in Any Conversation is Really Saying.

Sooner or later, I think every author gets the question, “What inspired you to write your book?”

And if you’re looking for proven, reliable information from any book, you have a right to know why the author is credible and what his motives were in writing it–this matters!

Anyway, I’ve been asked this a few times myself, and I’ve always answered it something like this:  During my years as a police interrogator I learned a lot of techniques for getting down to the truth.  Then I used these same methods to gain the confidence of drug dealers when I worked undercover for the Missouri State Highway Patrol.   

Then on the highways as a trooper I took down thousands of pounds of marijuana and cocaine as a drug interdictor.  How?  Well, it wasn’t done with a gun or a badge—I did it just through conversation.  What people said, the questions I asked, their answers… being able to read people, and “listen between the lines” gave me “powers” that most people don’t have. 

Don’t get me wrong:  I made a LOT of mistakes.  What I give you in my book is the result of much failure… learning… tweaking… and eventual success. 

So what’s the secret?  Well, simply put, it’s having the skill to pick up on the subtle messages that are laced throughout the words people speak.  See, people are always releasing more information than they realize… once you learn to pick up on this “subtextual language” a whole knew world will open before you.  It’s not difficult to do, but you do need to know a few little tricks.

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Anyway, after leaving law enforcement a few years back, I realized the techniques I learned, tweaked, and developed over the last ten years could be adapted to any conversation—social, professional, or business.

What I’d really been taught were techniques for savvy conversation.

A brief look at the book market caused me to realize something else, that all the commercial books on this subject were written by one of two types:

1-psychiatrists, or

2-researchers

I couldn’t find anything on the market from an author with real-world experience, who’d sat knee to knee with thieves and murderers, trying not just to find the truth but to get another person to admit it!

So there was a void, and I put Conquering Deception© out there to fill it.  It draws on the techniques I used as a cop, but translates them in a way that you can use in any situation.  

Here’s an important point:  You don’t have to be confrontational to either recognize the truth… or draw it out of another person.  In fact, subtlety will take you further in this sport than just about anything else.

Now in its 6^th printing, Conquering Deception© has established itself as the pre-eminent book on clever communication and detecting deception.  One of the many things that separates my book from others you’ll find out there, is that it addresses the very important distinction between Lying… and Deception. 

While most authors (erroneously) focus on lying, it’s deception that is more prevalent—and more dangerous—than lying. 

Do you converse with people every day of your life?  Of course!  Everything we do begins and ends with the spoken word.  It’s how you close a sale, get a date, a job, even a divorce!  This is the stuff they didn’t teach us in school:  How to manage conversations, influence others, and yes, recognize deception before the damage is done.

So I hope you’ll get your own copy of Conquering Deception© now and become one of the many thousands of readers who’ve benefitted from the hard to find information you’ll find in it… enjoy!

-jef