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How To Play Chess: The Interview of Dr. Eileen Mercer Forensic Behavior Analyst
Paperback
Series: The Smile, It Never Reached Their Eyes, Book 12
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They thought they understood the game.
They never understood the player.
Long after the headlines fade and the courtroom empties, one question refuses to die:
How did everyone miss it?
How did an entire world misread the quietest person in the room?
How did people spend years standing beside power... without recognizing it?
That's where Dr. Eileen Mercer comes in.
A renowned forensic psychologist brought in to analyze the psychological structure behind one of the most calculated lives anyone has ever witnessed, Mercer begins breaking apart the layers of manipulation, perception, emotional conditioning, and strategic silence that allowed Valencia to remain hidden in plain sight for years.
But the deeper she goes into the case-
The more disturbing the truth becomes.
Because this was never random.
Never emotional.
Never chaotic.
It was structured.
Every relationship.
Every reaction.
Every carefully controlled perception.
Like a chess match no one realized they were playing.
And now, for the first time, someone is finally explaining the board.
In How to Play Chess, A.R. Calder shifts the series into a chilling psychological breakdown of power, perception, manipulation, and the hidden architecture behind Valencia's rise-revealing that the most dangerous players are rarely the loudest ones.
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