Robert Eringer was a London-based foreign correspondent for The Toronto Star and The Blade (Toledo, Ohio); as an investigative reporter for British newspapers, his specialty was infiltrating extremist groups.
Eringer evolved from journalism to private intelligence before embarking on a ten-year mission for FBI Counterintelligence.
In addition to Ruse, a nonfiction book about his undercover missions for the FBI, Eringer authored a cluster of absurdist novels combining intrigue and lunacy.
He also authored Surreal Bounce, a six-year odyssey in search of creativity and madness; and penned a weekly column--The Investigator--for the Santa Barbara News-Press.
Eringer was spymaster to Prince Albert II of Monaco and created the principality's first intelligence service.