Elizabeth Landers and Vicky Mainzer are the authors of The Script: The 100% Absolutely Predictable Things Men Do When They Cheat. The women, both divorced after long marriages, discovered the script by listening to hundreds of real-life stories of unfaithful husbands.

There really does seem to be a script that men follow and The Script: The 100% Absolutely Predictable Things Men Do When They Cheat lays it out in an easy to follow format. Recommended for any woman whose husband has cheated or who wonders if her husband might be cheating. The following is an excerpt:

It’s a few weeks after George has moved out and he’s coming to pick up the kids. George walks into the kitchen where Irene is wiping up and says, “Hi, Irene, how are you doing?”

Irene answers, “Well, struggling along. It’s hard.”

George is annoyed to hear this “complaining” answer and says, “Irene, you’ve got to move on.”

You’re confused. He’s telling you Nothing Happened. But every religious and civil code you’ve ever known says Something Did Happen. You heard the crash as the stone tablet fell in pieces to the ground. It was the tablet that says “adultery is wrong” being knocked over. These broken covenants make a very loud noise to you. But he says he doesn’t hear anything. And some of your friends tell you you ‘re making a big deal out of a little noise. And anyway they don’t want to know about it because then the noise may start to resonate in their own lives.

Copyright 2005 Elizabeth Landers and Vicky Mainzer. Published by Hyperion.