Everybody Lies

Stephen John Komorek is an author, special investigator, and intelligence-trained instructor whose work focuses on deception, credibility assessment, and human behavior under pressure. With nearly two decades of experience spanning government, military, legal, and private-sector environments, he has worked on cases involving fraud, counterintelligence concerns, high-conflict litigation, and complex investigative matters where truth is deliberately obscured.

Komorek's background bridges street-level survival, formal intelligence training, and advanced behavioral science. After early exposure to environments where deception was a daily survival tool, he later served in U.S. Military and trained alongside federal, law enforcement, and security professionals. He is certified under Paul Ekman's facial expression and emotion research and is a Master Instructor in the BLAST behavioral analysis methodology, a structured system for detecting deception through observable cognitive and emotional leakage.

He has taught investigators, attorneys, security professionals, and operational personnel how to recognize deception not as a moral failure, but as a predictable human behavior shaped by stress, motivation, and consequence. His work emphasizes disciplined observation, baseline analysis, cognitive load mapping, and the interpretation of behavioral clusters rather than reliance on stereotypes or single cues.

Everybody Lies is the culmination of Komorek's professional training, operational experience, and academic study. Rather than focusing on anecdotes or sensational cases, the book presents a systematic framework for understanding deception across history, psychology, intelligence practice, and modern investigative application.

Stephen John Komorek lives and works in the United States. When not writing or consulting, he continues to develop training methodologies focused on behavioral analysis, investigative ethics, and decision-making under uncertainty.