B-list actor, A-list corporate spy. Robert Kerbeck makes his money- his real money - by lying on the phone, tricking people inside multibillion-dollar corporations into telling him things they definitely should not. He's become one of the world's greatest practitioners of a unique, shadowy talent called THE RUSE. Ruse explores the lies he 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.