They are adept and accomplished, but many feel betrayed by their supposed political guardians, and aspire to tear down the web of deceptions from the inside.
Clive Owen has been in several recent films involving complicated deceptions (Derailed, Inside Man, The International) and Julia Roberts has appeared in the hall-of-mirrors heist movies Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve, so they're well prepared for the romantic thriller Duplicity, the title speaking for itself.
When the series of body blows had wounded the Tigers, he went for the kill by running and passing, setting up his side's first try with delightful deception, looking outside before slipping an inside pass to Simon Zebo.
The book gives the Wheelers a detailed specificity and the reader comes to know them - their doubts, deceptions and ambitions - from the inside.
Having an inside man was key to the Heathrow deception.
Inside a famous Cold War deception.
The Germans devised an elaborate deception plan, and because the troops were being assembled inside Germany, they relied on secure phone and teleprinter lines rather than radio.
But he was soon back inside: three years for theft, five years for robbery, 18 months for deception – and so on and so on.
They just earned three Pinocchios rather than the full four, which means the Post found a shrivelled kernel of veracity wrapped inside the thick layers of fraud, distortion and deception.
The book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," is due out next week; copies leaked out Tuesday night.
