Robert Kerbeck - Ruse : Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street

Ruse is a Tale of Two Lives: Kerbecks acting career and his fascinating life as a corporate con man/spy. If you like celeb gossip, youll go for the first, but I prefer the second since it exposes the very dark, greedy, narcissistic side of Wall Street and Big Business in general. Kerbeck out-cons the top con-artists sophisticated CEOs. And he does it over the phone. Wow! In my day I had to fly around the world!

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Kerbeck has a very compelling writing style and can pull off humor, too, which isnt easy. I really enjoyed Ruse.

Bradley Hope, author of Billion Dollar Whale

I loved Ruse! What a crazy story, and believe me, I know crazy. Successful spies are great storytellers, and Robert Kerbeck ranks up there with the best of them.

Valerie Plame, author of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House

Ruse lives at a truly unique intersection of Hollywood meets Wall Street, and I found myself laughing with and rooting for Robert throughout this book. His personality leaps off the page hes a great storyteller and Ruse is a cant miss best seller.

Rob Golenberg, Executive Producer of the Showtime series Your Honor

In Ruse, Robert Kerbeck reveals himself to be a scoundrel, a raconteur, and a masterful storyteller. In the course of becoming an unlikely corporate intelligence spy, his various masks are so seamless that readers are swept along in his mythic transformation. Sometimes, memoirs become self-involved and forget to give readers a good story. Not here. What other book features a narrator attending a soiree at Paul Newmans Manhattan apartment, and appearing in an O.J. Simpson exercise video? And thats just for starters. This compelling page-turner is both insightful and an absolute hoot.

Sue William Silverman, author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Robert Kerbecks memoir, Ruse, is a riveting tale of desire and deception in a world where lies are necessary currency and where con artists can end up convincing everyone, even themselves. Ruse offers a fascinating portrait of a life negotiated through a web of fabrications.

Lee Martin, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of Gone the Hard Road

A deliciously outrageous, you-cant-make-this-shit-up caper. Kerbeck takes us on his unlikely transformation from almost-a-star actor to multi-millionaire corporate sleuth. As it turns out, you dont need to climb the greasy rungs of the ladder to make a killing; all you need is a telephone and your wits.

Erik Edstrom, author of Un-American: A Soldiers Reckoning of Our Longest War

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To my mother, who always told me to tell the truth.

We have given away so much information that anyone anywhere can become anybody at any time.

Frank Abagnale, Catch Me If You Can

With that little black phone you can achieve anything. That phone equals money.

Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street

Is it not monstrous that this player here,

but in a fiction, in a dream of passion,

could force his soul so to his own conceit.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet