Tuesday is (occasionally) Book Promotion Day
Today, Last Flight Out.
Because how many novels deal with quantum entanglement, vanishing twin syndrome and traveling in time through photographs?
Author Bio
As a journalist, novelist, private spy, undercover operative and director of an intelligence service, it can certainly be said that Robert Eringer has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in the information biz.
He began as a London-based foreign correspondent for The Toronto Star and The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), filing feature stories and high-profile interviews from around Europe.
As an investigative reporter for British large-circulation Sunday newspapers, Eringer raked the gutter, exposing sleazeballs and scumbags. His specialty was infiltrating extremist groups, including violent anarchists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. (He still possesses a red robe and hood the KKK tailored for him.)
Eringer evolved from journalism to private intelligence before embarking on a ten-year career operating undercover for FBI Counterintelligence. Some of his missions are included in Ruse (Potomac Books) published in 2008.
Using his intelligence experience as grist, Eringer merged two skills (writing and spying) to author a cluster of humorous espionage novels that combine intrigue and lunacy.
As a novelist, Eringer inhabits a world of master spies, billionaires, royalty and delusional lunatics. In reality, he keeps the same company, with battle scars to prove it, documented (if somewhat inaccurately) throughout cyberspace.
Four decades ago, a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court (Liberty Lobby v. Jack Anderson) called Eringer “mysterious” and questioned his “actual existence.”
Eringer, himself, continues to question actual existence.
Commencing June 16th, 2002 until December 31st, 2007, Eringer was spymaster to Prince Albert II of Monaco.
After Prince Rainier’s death in April 2005, and Albert’s ascension to the throne, Eringer created the principality’s first (unofficial) intelligence agency, the Monaco Intelligence Service. (It was killed off by persons who feared what the service had uncovered.)
Resettling in Montecito, Eringer became “The Investigator” (a weekly weekend column) for the Santa Barbara News-Press.
In 2016, Eringer returned to fiction with the publication of Motional Blur (Skyhorse), acclaimed by T.C. Boyle as “A nonpareil road novel that winds up packing a real emotional punch.”