Helps you in hiring people by identifying and avoiding misrepresentations by the applicants. This guide helps you to: extract histories from vague or misleading responses; filter fact from fiction - and deal with dishonest candidates; contend with legal issues, citing questions you can and cannot ask; and, make a well-informed decision.

Paul Bradshaw was orphaned as an infant over fifty years ago. His father, a professional musician, suddenly died of a heart attack when Paul was eight days old. Within a year, his mother was gone, as well; ."died of a broken heart," he was always told. He had always accepted this explanation without question. Now, as a grown man and father of three boys approaching their own tentative adulthood, the rusting, armor of Bradshaw's youthful idealism begins to fail him in mid-life. At the edges of a mental crisis, Paul receives a package offering him tantalizing clues to a past he's long denied....