"Kerbeck's juicy memoir tells riveting tales [with] the thrill of
a spy novel. . . Kerbeck bares all of his wild business secrets
within the world of corporate espionage" --Foreword Reviews
Robert Kerbeck has mastered the art of social engineering, or what he
calls 'rusing', and taken it to a whole new level. --Frank Abagnale,
author of Catch Me If You Can
B-list actor, A-list corporate spy
In the world of high finance, multibillion-dollar Wall Street banks
greedily guard their secrets. Enter Robert Kerbeck, a working actor who
made his real money lying on the phone, charming people into revealing
their employers' most valuable information. In this exhilarating memoir
that will appeal to fans of The Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me If
You Can, unsuspecting receptionists, assistants, and bigshot executives
all fall victim to "the Ruse."
After college, Kerbeck rushed to New York to try to make it as an actor.
But to support himself, he'd need a survival job, and before he knew it,
while his pals were waiting tables, he began his apprenticeship as a
corporate spy.
As his acting career started to take off, he found himself hobnobbing
with Hollywood luminaries: drinking with Paul Newman, taking J.Lo to a
Dodgers game, touring E.R. sets with George Clooney. He even worked
with O.J. Simpson the week before he became America's most notorious
double murderer.
Before long, however, his once promising acting career slowed while the
corporate espionage business took off. The ruse job was supposed to have
been temporary, but Kerbeck became one of the world's best practitioners
of this deceptive--and illegal--trade. His income jumped from tens of
thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year.
Until the inevitable crash...
Kerbeck shares the lies he told, the celebrities he screwed (and those
who screwed him), the cons he ran, and the money he made--and
lost--along the way.
