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 it s time we started being honest about our lying.