On the surface, the truth is simple.  The truth weaves its way through all human communications.  It’s in people’s eyes, how they hold their hands, how they tilt of their heads, and particularly in the position of their feet.  It is also in how they put their words together, in the words themselves and the stress in their voices.  The FBI and the Department of Defense and police departments use this knowledge to compel suspects to betray themselves.    But what if there was an app for that?

That’s what GUS SAINTE wonders when he returns from Guantanamo with the pain and terror of extracting information with water boarding engraved on his mind.   He is determined to employ technology to find a better way to reveal the truth.  It seems simple at first to electronically combine human ‘tells’ to uncover the lies.  But as Gus and his team work against a financial clock to develop the device, they have to prove that it works and the results are surprising.  He doesn’t realize that creating a technological, all-knowing, electronic Genie will reveal truths that embezzlers, terrorists, news anchors, and Supreme Court justice candidates would prefer to keep hidden.  And when an old flame, the gorgeous Cyrene Al-Masri, mysteriously returns to his life he recognizes lies that are far more personal and dangerous and that truth can be a weapon and that can kill.

Paperback; 408 pages; Published by Salty Air Publishing