Lie to Me

Lena Vogel doesn't believe in redemption. Not for men like Klaus Reinhardt, the ex intelligence officer whose orders led to the slaughter of her parents in Kabul. Not for the monsters bred in the dark corners of history. And least of all for herself. By day, she works in a university research lab, studying the psychology of trauma. By night, she attends Reinhardt's political rallies with a pistol hidden in her bag, waiting for her moment.

When Johan Liebert volunteers for her study, he enters her life without her consent, and still remains polite and unsettlingly calm. He answers questions with perfect composure, smiles too easily, and knows things about her that nobody should. Drawn into his orbit despite herself, Lena begins to dig. But the more she learns, the more reality begins to fragment. As her world narrows, she must confront what it means to live in the cold grasp of something quite inhuman.

Set in the universe of Urasawa's Monster, Lie to Me is a psychological story about control, complicity, and how proximity to evil makes monsters of us all.