Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Preface, Prologue, PART I: THE NATURE OF DUPLICITY 1. The Prevalence of Guile: The Ruses of War, 2. The Structure of Deceit: A Theory of Cheating, 3. Applied Theory: Wily Warriors, 4. Deceivers and Dupes: Profiles, PART II: CHEATING-THE EIGHTFOLD WAY, 5. Magic, 6. Games and Sports, 7. People and the Everyday World, 8. Public Cheating: Politics, Espionage, and War, PART III: CHEATING THE CHEATERS 9. Illusion and Reality in the Arts, 10. Hoaxes and Self-deception in Art and Science, Epilogue: Counterdeception, Index
J. Bowyer Bell (1931-2003) was president of International Analysis Center, Inc., a consulting firm focusing on problems of unconventional war, terrorism, deception, risk analysis, and crisis management, and a former senior research associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. Barton Whaley is a research professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. An internationally renowned scholar and authority on deception and counter-deception, Dr. Whaley has also been associated with M.I.T., The American University, the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the National Intelligence Councils Foreign Denial & Deception Committee (FDDC). He received his Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T.