For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer: love and lies have always been the most intimate of bedfellows.

And Clancy Martin divorced twice, married three times is no stranger to either.

With help from Plato, Machiavelli, Raymond Carver and Pinocchio, here he explores the entanglements of love, truthfulness and deceit. First, unrequited, lasting or misguided love always goes hand in hand with secrets, and its time we started being honest about our lying.

A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas,Clancy Martinis presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews and short stories. He is the author of the acclaimed novelHow to Sell. He is married and has three daughters.

Love and Lies. You can"t have one without the other. This book is about why.