Maximilian Mitera

Maximilian Mitera spent more than thirty years working in situations where mistakes aren't embarrassing — they're dangerous: police special units, the world of intelligence work, operations ranging from organized crime to international extremism and terrorism. What remained: a light sleep, a dry sense of humor — and a method.

It's called ROMI: four moves for reading people, spotting deception, and stepping in before it gets expensive. What worked in interrogation rooms and command centers, Mitera now teaches as a lecturer at several academies — and translates into books for everyone who doesn't carry a badge but would still like to know who, exactly, is leading them around the ring.

His guiding principle after three decades on the edge of the abyss: never take yourself too seriously. Everything else is in his books.

Writing at his side is Peter, the lawyer — the man with a legal opinion on every investigator's trick. It's usually the same one: "Don't."