| Description |
264 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
In the title, the letter "s" in the word "ruse" is represented by a dollar sign. |
| Summary |
"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" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prologue: The CEO of Big Daddy's Surf Shack -- The biggest lie -- But I don't wanna be a car salesman -- Luck of the Irish -- Preying on the kindness of strangers -- Born to ruse -- The color of money -- Inside the actors studio -- Killing Clooney -- In which I spend two days dancing with the man about to commit America's most infamous double murder -- The Darth Vader of hacking -- Queen of the hags -- Partying with the yakuza -- The inside ploy -- Y2K -- Hard bark -- The compliance ploy -- Out of the lying pan, into the fire -- The Brad Pitt of the search world -- Locked in -- Coffee's for closers -- Flirting for dollars -- The whore of Wall Street -- The dropping-the-grapefruit ploy -- Spy vs. spy -- The traitor's reveal -- A good ol' Christmas fucking -- Swinging the long, cold Malibu winter -- Epilogue: Last call. |
| Subject |
Kerbeck, Robert.
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Business intelligence -- Anecdotes.
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Actors -- United States -- Biography.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Biography.
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Actors -- United States.
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Spies.
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TRUE CRIME / White Collar Crime.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business.
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TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions.
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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Business intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00842723
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
Ruse |
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Lying the American dream from Hollywood to Wall Street : a memoir |
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Ru$e : lying the American dream from Hollywood to Wall Street : a memoir |
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Ru$e |
| ISBN |
9781586423162 (paperback) |
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1586423169 (paperback) |
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