Battle Stations

Effective Interviewing and Interrogating Techniques

         Principles of Kinesic Interviews
         Investigative Interviewing
         Al-Qaeda perhaps. Annals of Guantanamo, renditions in Egypt, Bulgaria, Bahrain (was it? or was that unconfirmed?)? Kashmir?
         No dear Reader—the clean, orderly and whisper-quiet streets of Singapore still.
         Gobbledegook you think?... Not likely; not to this earnest mid-twenties lad with note-paper beside his pile, sharp pencil at the ready. The library doors have only been open an hour. Hardened types exclusively that time of day. Monday mornings usually graveyard quiet. 
         This is far from a quick, flying consultation; young chap settled for careful research. Lime-green thin white striped polo, blue jeans, white track-shoes possibly that morning creamed. (One should not judge from the cover—books aside!) The job interview late week or next perhaps; the first of the rounds in a highly competitive market. Never say die; try, try again; do your research, leave nothing to chance, any kind of advantage to be gleaned.

         U.S. publications of course, hardbacks in lurid violets and yellows. (Rather in the vein of some of the spirituality guides.) Chaps with PhD's from Harvard Biz School, Bristol and Manchester, in Management, Human Resources, Corporate Governance, Social Psychology, Behaviourialism, Bio-mechanics, Functional Economics and Eugenics. Heads of financial institutions, corporations, social policy units, the churches more than likely, penning their life experience in their twilight years in order to enlighten those just entering the race. Lads like this vying to get their first toe-hold on the bottom rung. Wouldn't matter too, too much if the surface of the earth wasn't shared. The titles up here on the Arts/Soc. Sciences shelves on the eighth floor enough to curl even Asian hair.