title: Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime: Secrets of Calculated Questioning From a Veteran Interrogator
author: James Pyle
description: "Wish you knew whether the wisecracking guy in the next cubicle got a raise this year? Or whether that stylish woman sipping wine on your first date wants to have kids? Bet you'd like to know whether your nanny really takes the baby outside everyday per your instructions. Well, a new book by an army intelligence interrogator could help you get the answers to your most pressing questions."<br />--<i>Time</i><br /><br />"With his style of questioning alone, Jim Pyle can get more information than most other interrogators using multiple techniques."<br />--Gregory Hartley, coauthor of the best-seller <i>How to Spot a Liar</i>
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  # **Chapter Six**
  
  "The initiative is ours now," Keff said. He kept watch on the small screen of
  his Intentional Translator as it processed all the hedrons Carialle had
  recorded while he was unconscious and combined it with the dialogue he had
  garnered from Brannel and the magicians' discussions. The last hedron popped
  out of the slot, and Keff slapped it into his portable IT unit on the control
  panel. "That's it. We have a working vocabulary of Ozran. I can talk with
  him."
  
  "Enough to ask intelligent questions?" Carialle asked. "Enough to negotiate
  diplomatically for our release, and inform them, 'by the way, folks, we're
  from another planet'?"
  
  "Nope," Keff said, matter-of-factly. "Enough to ask stupid questions and
  gather more information. IT will pick up on the answers I get and, I _hope_ ,
  translate them from context."
  
  "That IT has never been worth the electrons to blow it up," Carialle said