Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Selling the Psychological Detective: Hugo Münsterberg's Applied Psychology and The Achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- 2. The Science of Lying in a Laboratory: William Marston's Deceptive Consciousness, 1913-22 -- 3. Thought in Translation: Reading the Mind in Science and Science Fiction, 1930-50 -- 4. Without a Trace: Brain Fingerprinting, Biometrics, and Body Snatching -- 5. A Tremor in the Brain: fMRI Lie Detection, Brain Fingerprinting, and the Organ of Deceit in Post-9/11 America -- Coda: Lie Detection as Patterned Repetition-From The Demolished Man to The Truth Machine -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.