In the 1990s Robert Kerbeck had built for himself what most would consider a respectable acting career, but it wasn’t making him enough money to support the lifestyle he had envisioned. So, Robert got a side gig. A very different kind of side gig than most actors trying to make it. Kerbeck had found the perfect day job for an actor trying to make a living: playing a role. He made his real money by lying on the phone, tricking people inside multibillion-dollar corporations into telling him things they definitely should not. He charmed eager-to-please assistants, gaining their trust along with total access to a company’s most valuable information. Kerbeck's once promising acting career tailed off as he burrowed deeper and deeper into the world of corporate espionage, to the point where his income jumped from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year. Until the inevitable crash...Perfect for fans of Catch Me If You Can and The Wolf of Wall Street, Ruse explores the lies Kerbeck told, the celebrities he screwed (and the ones who screwed him), the cons he ran, and the millions he made—and lost—along the way. Kerbeck has never revealed his hand, until now. Robert Kerbeck is the founder of the Malibu Writers Circle and his essays and short stories have been featured in numerous magazines and literary journals, including Narratively, Cimarron Review and Los Angeles Magazine.

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